Oetjen v. Oetjen
Supreme Court of Georgia
Appeal. Before Judge Brinson. Richmond superior court. January 17, 1902.
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
In the case of Howard v. Hunter, 115 Ga. 357, this court held that in order for a written entry upon a will to operate .as a revocation thereof, it must have either been attested in the same manner and with the same formality as is required for the execution of a will, or the entry must have been written upon the will in such a manner as to obliterate or cancel some material portion of the will. The facts of the present case are almost identical with those of the case just referred to; the only difference being that one word of the entry in the present case was written across one word in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Howard v. HunterSupreme Court of Georgia · 1902
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