Isaac v. Campbell

Opinion

FILES, P. J.

This appeal involves the probate of a formal will which the testatrix attempted to alter by pen and ink strikeouts and interlineations.

Dorothy V. Gumming (hereinafter the decedent) died April 22, 1975, survived by a sister Gladys Gumming Noll and a brother Ulmont Gumming. The latter died prior to the probate of Dorothy’s will, and is represented in this proceeding by his executors.

The decedent left a typewritten witnessed will on the stationery of an attorney with a Portsmouth, Virginia, address, executed April 6, 1933. Mrs. Noll, as a beneficiary named in that will,…