Maxwell v. Ford

Hatcher, President:

This appeal involves the validity of a document offered for probate as the holographic will of George H. Crawford. The instrument is as follows:

“9/27/25 6 P. M.

My last will and orders. All my estate with love and honor to Lena E. Maxwell. Follow her instructions in funeral arrangements.

Geo. H. Crawford.”

Crawford was a business man who lived in Elkins, W. Va. He was taken to a hospital in Baltimore, Md., on Sept. 28, 1925, where he died Oct. 3. His death was caused by pernicious anemia, from which he had suffered for several months prior.

The proponent, Lena E. Maxwell, is an…