Harris v. Thelma McIntosh Berry

Legge, Justice.

On February 27, 1952, Fulton Dukes Berry, of Richland County, then a patient in the Veteran’s Hospital at Kecoughtan, Virginia, executed an instrument purporting to be his last will and testament, in which he named as executrix his sister Ruby Berry Harris. On April 22, 1952, he died; and the said instrument was, on the petition of Mrs. Harris, admitted to probate in common form by the Probate Court of Richland County on May 12, 1952. Its validity having been thereafter contested by decedent’s widow, Thelma McIntosh Berry, the Honorable G. Badger Baker, Presiding Judge, refused…