Ricketts v. Ricketts

This case was tried before a jury in the circuit court of Henderson county upon an issue of devisavit vel non, the particular question being whether the alleged will of J. G. Ricketts was a forgery. The jury sustained the will.

Upon appeal the judgment was affirmed by the court of civil appeals. The case has been brought to this court by petition for certiorari, and the assignments of error raise but one question, viz.: The action of the trial court in excluding certain evidence tendered by the contestants.

It should be borne in mind that the only issue was the forgery of the signature of the…