Oliver v. Union National Bank of Springfield

BILLINGS, Judge.

This case comes to the writer on reassignment and involves the question of alterations made to a will by the testator subsequent to the execution and attestation of the will. The trial court ruled that the unattested alterations eliminated plaintiff as a beneficiary under the will. We are of the opinion that the alterations are invalid and that the will is to be construed as originally written and therefore reverse.

Paragraph four of the typewritten will of John H. Sparling as originally written executed and attested, reads as follows: “All of the rest, residue and remainder of…