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WESTERN STATE HOSPITAL OF STAUNTON v. WININGER

83 S.E.2d 446 (1954)

196 Va. 300

WESTERN STATE HOSPITAL OF STAUNTON, Virginia, v. George F. WININGER, et al., Heirs at Law of F. S. Glassett, and Christ Episcopal Church of Blacksburg, Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Rehearing Denied October 12, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolph Bumgardner, Jr., Staunton, Bentley Hite, Christianburg, for appellant.

Dalton Poff & Turk, Radford, R. L. Humbert, Blacksburg, for appellees.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and MILLER, SMITH and WHITTLE, JJ.

MILLER, Justice.

On January 27, 1950, Frederick S. Glassett, a childless widower, died in Western State Hospital, Staunton, Virginia. He was adjudged insane on November 7, 1931, and had been an inmate of that institution since that date.

Glassett left real and personal property amounting to nearly $20,000, and this litigation was instituted to determine which, if either, of two holographic paper writings constituted his will. One of the instruments was executed...

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