McKenzie v. Francis

This will contest turns on the question of revocation by obliteration. Deciding as a matter of law against revocation, the chancellor admitted the will to probate, and we granted the contestants an appeal from the decree entered on December 2, 1971.

After the death of Laura Virginia Francis on April 30, 1970, a paper writing dated February 8, 1959, signed by the decedent and written wholly in her hand, was found in her personal effects and presented to the clerk of the court. Finding part of decedent’s signature and the right-hand portion of each of the five pages of the instrument completely…