Murphy v. Murphy
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from G-arland Circuit Court; Scott Wood, Judge; STATEMENT OP PACTS. On .June 15, 1918, P. J. Murphy, a resident of Hot Springs, Arkansas, died there, leaving surviving him his widow, Minnie Murphy, and some collateral heirs, but no lineal descendants. After his death a search was made for a will, but none could be found. In the latter part of January, 1919, Mrs. Minnie Murphy went to South Dakota on business.
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Appeal from G-arland Circuit Court; Scott Wood, Judge; STATEMENT OP PACTS. On .June 15, 1918, P. J. Murphy, a resident of Hot Springs, Arkansas, died there, leaving surviving him his widow, Minnie Murphy, and some collateral heirs, but no lineal descendants. After his death a search was made for a will, but none could be found. In the latter part of January, 1919, Mrs. Minnie Murphy went to South Dakota on business. While she was there in February, 1919, Anna Feeney, her sister, had occasion to examine a trunk containing the books and papers of the deceased and found the following: “i wont my…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the facts). Subdivision five of section 8012 of Kirby’s Digest provides that where the entire body of the will and the signature thereto shall be written in the proper handwriting of the testator, such will may be established by the unimpeachable evidence of at least three disinterested witnesses to the handwriting and signature of such testator.
In the case at bar the proponent introduced seven disinterested witnesses who had been closely associated with P. J. Murphy, deceased, during the last five or six years of his life, and who by correspondence and by examination of his…
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