In Re Estate of Merrill

The contestant, Laura E. Butler, is the mother and only heir at law of Isabelle Merrill, whose alleged will is in question. She is also the mother of Clem Butler, the proponent, and of two other children, Mrs. Florence Horseman and Fred Butler. The probate of the alleged will was resisted on the ground that it was not the will of Isabelle Merrill, and that the signature thereto was not her genuine signature.

I. Upon the questions of the execution of the will by the deceased and the genuineness of the signature thereto the evidence was in sharp and irreconcilable conflict. There was testimony…