Kidd v. Gunter

The plaintiffs, Margaret R. Kidd, Bernard G. Ragland, Sr., and Graham K. Ragland, the surviving whole blood siblings of Frances R. Fore (Fore), who died in March 2000, instituted suit in the circuit court, offering for probate as the holographic will of the decedent a handwritten journal prepared by Fore during her lifetime. The named defendants in the suit are the children of Fore’s two deceased whole blood siblings, Fore’s surviving half blood sibling, and the children of Fore’s deceased half blood sibling. Those defendants denied that the decedent’s handwritten journal satisfies the…