Van Meter v. Van Meter

This appeal was brought by Milton G. Van Meter from an order of the Orphans’ Court for Allegany County refusing to probate the will of his mother, Annie M. Van Meter, deceased.

The will was written by Russell Saville, resident of Chicago, who formerly resided in Cumberland and served as a director of the George’s Creek Coal Company. On July 8, 1936, Mrs. Van Meter came from her home at Cresaptown to the office of the coal company in a bank building in Cumberland for the purpose of executing the will which Saville had prepared at her request. Appellant, 63 years old, a grocer, of Cresaptown,…