Pulley v. Cartwright

This is a suit to contest a holographic will.

The instrument was probated in common form in the County Court of Wilson County and an administrator with the will annexed was appointed. A petition to contest its validity was filed by the sisters of the testatrix and the children of a deceased brother. It was alleged in the petition that the paper writing in controversy was not the will of Mrs. Retta Allen, deceased, for the reasons that at the time the said paper was executed she was of unsound mind and incompetent to make a valid will; that she was unduly influenced to make the same by the…