Coates v. Thompson

OPINION

CONNER, Judge.

This is a will contest.

Defendant-appellee, Bobby Leon Thompson (Graves),1 the illegitimate son of the decedent, John G. Graves, seeks to have a document purporting to be his father’s will declared invalid on the ground of forgery. Should he succeed Mr. Thompson would, as the only child of a deceased father who never married, inherit decedent’s entire estate under the statute of descent and distribution. However, if the will is declared genuine, the proponents of the will would take the estate, consisting solely of 125 acres of realty, as legatees thereunder. The lower…