Howell v. Moore

In the Circuit Court this case presented an issue of devisavit vel non, on certain “writings” propounded as the holographic will of John P. Farrelly. deceased. At the close of all the evidence, the trial judge, on motion of the contestants, peremptorily directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the contestants and “against the will sought t" be set up,” which was done, and the court thereupon adjudged that “the papers mentioned in the declaration and in the said motion of the heirs of John P. Farrelly, Hugh C. Moore and others, are not, nor is anyone or any part of them, tbe last will…