Crain v. Brown

CRAWFORD, Judge.

This is an appeal by contestants in a will contest. Contestants are Mary Frances Crain, daughter of testator, and Emily Brown Sand, Paul Richard Brown and Judy Brown Jackson, grandchildren of testator and children of Paul L. Brown, testator’s deceased son. Proponents of the will are the testator’s four surviving sons — Carl Benton Brown, Sr., also named as executor in the will, Charles G. Brown, James Porter Brown, Jr., and Loy T. Brown.

The complaint alleges that a paper writing dated September 13, 1982, previously admitted to probate in common form, is not the lawful will of…