Lewis v. Lewis

This case is before us on appeal by Mrs. Bettye K. Lewis, proponent of an alleged holographic will of W. Jack Lewis, deceased, from a decree of the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County, rendered on September 8, 1959, in favor of Katherine Ann Lewis, an adult, and Mrs. Bess Lassiter Lewis, guardian and next friend of Margueritte Gibson Lewis, a minor, contestants, denying probate of said alleged will, which had been theretofore admitted to probate in common form.

The record shows that W. Jack Lewis lost his life by drowning in the Tombigbee River, near Demopolis, Alabama, on August 30, 1958; and…