Fitch v. American Trust Co.

This cause involves the validity of a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Eugene Fitch, who died in Davidson county in May, 1919. The alleged will was executed on August 23, 1909. A trial of the issues before the judge and a jury resulted in a verdict against the validity of the will, and motion for new trial was made and sustained. Tbe trial judge thereupon granted the motion which had been made by counsel for the proponents of the will at the close of all the testimony and the verdict of the jury was set aside, peremptory instructions sustaining the will were given…