Ragsdale v. Hill

FELTS, J.,

This appeal presents a contest of the validity of a paper-writing propounded as the last will and testament of Newman H. Hill, deceased. The principal question is whether this instrument was “attested” as prescribed by the applicable law so as to entitle it to be probated as the will of the deceased.

He was a resident of Davidson County, Tennessee, unmarried, childless, and had no ldn except his mother, Mrs. Ophelia Hill, and some cousins, one of whom was proponent Walter D. Ragsdale. He and Ragsdale were about the same age and had been intimate friends since childhood; and he and…