Steele v. Price

Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

[This opinion was delivered at the Spring Term, 1844, a few days before the adjournment of the Court, and suspended until the Fall Term, when the suspension was removed.]

On the 12th day af October, 1842, William Steele, of Fayette county, died childless and unmarried; and at the succeeding Nov. term of the Fayette County Court, D. L. Price and Elizabeth his wife, the latter claiming to be a principal devisee, offered a paper for probate, as containing the substance of the will of William Steele, alledging that the written will, executed by him,…