Franklin v. McLean

E. F. McLean and other heirs at law of Nannie McLean Copenhaver, deceased, filed their bill in equity under Code, § 64-84, to impeach and set aside a certain paper writing which ■had been admitted to probate ecc parte by the Circuit Court of Smyth county (Code, § 64-81) on November 8, 1948, as the last will and testament of the decedent. The plaintiffs alleged that the paper writing was not the decedent’s “true last will and testament” because it was “found among her repositories, in her possession, in a canceled and mutilated- condition by being marked over and across the writing on the face…