In Re Estate of Francesca Hall, Deceased. Navy Relief Society v. Marion Edwyn Harrison and Charles R. Hoover

The undisputed evidentiary facts are stated and analyzed with care in Judge Pratt’s opinion. In re Estate of Hall, 328 F.Supp. 1305 (D.D.C.1971). They need not be restated here beyond the synopsis that the Navy Relief Society sought to have admitted to probate a holographic writing of decedent, a paper entitled “Last Will and Testament” dated November 30, 1932, which she wrote on the front and back of a single sheet of paper. This writing purports to give all of her expectancy from her grandfather Clapp “to whatever organization cares for the disabled sailors and seamen of the United States…