Carver v. Anthony

This is a will case coming to this court by the separate appeals of the proponents and contestants. The case originated in the County Court of Blount County where John W. Anthony, Administrator of the estate of W. D. Carver, deceased, and Kathleen Carver Effler offered for probate as the will of W. D. Carver two paper writings dated, respectively, December 27, 1933, and March 10,1934.

In the Circuit Court the trial judge held the paper executed in 1933 non-testamentary in character and, on that ground, directed a verdict for contestants. The 1934 paper was admitted to probate as a properly…