Legal Opinion

Fuller v. Nazal

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided October 29, 1953No. 4 Div. 704PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SIMPSON, Justice.

This is a will contest. The proceeding was instituted to prove and have admitted to probate and record the last will and testament of Mrs. Ruth Bayard Edmunds, a resident of Phenix City, Alabama, who died April 21, 1951. The appellants are grandchildren of decedent and appellee is her only surviving child.

The circumstances are novel and call for an application of § 27, Title 61, Code 1940. The over-all question is whether a will, which has been revoked by a second will has or has not been revived by the operation of a subsequent codicil.

• Mrs. Edmunds duly executed a will on…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Lyons v. CampbellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
  2. Allen v. BrombergSupreme Court of Alabama · 1906
  3. O'Connell v. DowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
  4. Sherwood v. SherwoodWisconsin Supreme Court · 1878
  5. De Mouy v. JepsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1951

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Bradley v. EskridgeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1978
  2. Clark v. ClarkSupreme Court of Alabama · 1967
  3. Keel v. WeinmanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1957
  4. Beasley v. M. WellsSupreme Court of Alabama · 2010
  5. Estate of Smelser v. SmelserCourt of Appeals of Kansas · 1991

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