Grover v. Wigginton

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hardin:

The Owen, county court, in the year 1863, having established a paper propounded as the last will and testament of Edward O. Vallandingham, deceased, by the appellee and legatee Mary D. Wigginton and her husband, it was, in the year 1867, taken to the circuit court by a writ of error, at appellants instance, where, upon issue and evidence, the jury found it to be the true last will and testament of the testator, and the court having so adjudged, appellant seeks a reversal in this court.

This holographic will was found some six months after testator’s death,…