In Re the Will of Wall

Tbe testatrix married A. N. Wall, a widower with four children, and subsequently a child was born to this union. After her death a paper-writing purporting to be her last will and testament was probated in common form as a holograph will. It appeared that the will originally devised the real estate of the testatrix to her husband, A. N. Wall, if living, with the remainder over to his 4 children. When the paper was submitted for probate, it appeared that the figure “4” had been erased and the figure “5” written over it. The significant controversy at the trial was as to whether this figure “5”…