Lovell v. Lovell

MERRILL, Justice.

Appellee, Linda Sue Lovell, filed her petition to probate the alleged, last will of her deceased husband, Willard Paul Lovell. Appellants, the mother and brother of the testator, filed a contest, asked that the cause be transferred to the circuit court and demanded a trial by jury. Willard Paul Lovell left no lineal descendants and his only heirs were his wife, his mother and his brother.

The grounds of the contest were that the alleged will is not the last will and testament of the decedent, that it was not duly and legally executed by him, that it was revoked by him, that it…