Hughes v. Duncan

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. M. M. Mann, Acting Associate Justice.

The proponent of a paper proffered as the will of Perry Duncan prosecutes this appeal from a decree denying probate based on a jury’s verdict of “no will” rendered on a trial de novo in the Court of Common Pleas on appeal from a decree of the Probate Court which had rejected it.

Perry Duncan, late of Greer, S. C., a bachelor between sixty-eight and seventy years old, unable to read or write, died on May 18, 1931, in the home of Ina and Hovey G. Tooley, where he had lived for the preceding six months and ten days.…