In re the Estate of Nixon

Rosecrans, C. P. J.

This is an appeal from probate in common form of a purported will of Edward Nixon, deceased. *85The contention of the appellant is that the will was the product of undue influence or fraud exerted upon the decedent by his attorney, Francis L. Thompson, and the appellant challenges the “very existence” of the document as a will.

This paper-writing is dated August 22d, 1942. The testator, Edward Nixon, died on November 6th, 1942, approximately two and one-half months later. He was about seventy years of age. He could neither read nor write, hut could sign his name. He left him…