Peevy v. Ritcheson

Elsijane T. Roy, Justice.

C. R. Ritcheson died on or about July 19, 1971, in Benton County, Arkansas. This is an appeal from an order of the probate court refusing to admit to probate a handwritten instrument1 as the holographic will of the decedent.

It was agreed by the parties inter alia that Ritcheson possessed the necessary testamentary capacity to make a will and that he had intended for some time to make a will; that the instrument in question disposed of Ritcheson’s entire property; that the purported will is not tainted with fraud, constraint or undue influence; and that the deceased is…