English v. Shivers

Grice, Justice.

Rulings adverse to probate of a will are assigned as error here. The purported will of Mrs. LeVert Shivers was denied probate by the Superior Court of Warren County, when the propounder Emmett Johnson English sought to establish it in solemn form against caveat by Guy H. Shivers and other relatives of Mrs. Shivers. The court of ordinary of that county had previously probated the document and the caveators had appealed.

The caveat was upon three grounds, adjudication of insanity, monomania, and undue influence. The propounder moved to strike this caveat as a whole and each ground…