Beatty v. Caldwell

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

W. P. Slaughter died a resident of ¡Owen county on June 9, 1923. After his death two papers purporting to be his will and a codicil thereto were probated in the Owen county court. An appeal was taken from this order to the circuit court. In the circuit court there was a verdict and judgment that the papers were not his will. The propounders appeal.

W. P. Slaughter owned a farm in Owen county worth about $6,000.00, on which he and his son-in-law, K. L'. Beatty, lived for four or five years prior to the year 1913. In that year he sold the farm…