Haack v. Union Trust Co.

From the facts stated we are of opinion that the learned county judge was justified in inferring as his written decision shows he did infer, that the testatrix signed at the house; that she and Schroeder then went to Dr. Scollard’s office and that the testatrix there acknowledged the signature to the will to be hers; and that the witnesses thereupon signed as witnesses in her presence and the presence of each other, as the attestation clause recites they did. The attestation clause should be given great weight after so long a lapse of time. Will of Lewis, 51 Wis. 101, 7 N. W. 829. “It creates…