Marshall v. Vreeland

The appellant, Sarah Marshall, challenges the subject matter jurisdiction of the Tuscaloosa Circuit Court to hear a will contest regarding the purported will of the appellant's mother, Eliska Marshall Cooper, which was offered for probate by the appellant's son, Lowery Parker, Jr., in the Tuscaloosa Probate Court. Sarah Marshall's three brothers, Jesse Marshall, Alexander Marshall, and Joseph Marshall, contested the will on the grounds that there was a lack of due execution, that the testator was of unsound mind at the time she made the will, and that the will was the result of undue…