Price v. Wood

On February 18, 1965, the decedent, Nell Kathryn McCue executed a will. The parties have stipulated that the will was valid when executed. In May 1967, following Miss McCue’s death, the will was found in a drawer in her office desk. The name of the principal beneficiary of the will, and the person named as executor, (the will used the word “administrator”) had been excised from the typewritten pages by a sharp instrument. Petitioner, Gaylord Wood, asserts that it was his name that had been excised. The parties appear to assume that Wood had been named. Wood sought to *261have the will admitted to…