Scott v. Maddox

Yarner filed a petition in the court of ordinary, alleging that Ezekiel Beeves had departed this life testate, and that his last will was destroyed subsequently to his death, and praying that a copy of the will be established and admitted to record. To this petition certain persons, describing themselves as the heirs at law of Ezekiel Beeves, filed a caveat, setting up that at the time of the execution of the alleged will the testator was not of sound mind, that in executing the paper' he acted under the undue influence of Yarner, and that the failure to find the paper was due to the fact…