Melody v. Hamblin

This is a will contest, involving the validity of a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Julia Sunday Hamblin, deceased. The contestants are her surviving husband, Neal Hamblin, and her stepson, Ernest Hamblin.^ The ground of contest is that she was of unsound mind. There was a verdict and judgment in the circuit court against the will. John Melody, who was named executor, and is the proponent, has appealed in error and assigned twenty errors.

Through these assignments he insists that a verdict should have been directed for him, because the contestants were estopped to…