HARRIS v. BERRY ET AL.

17288

231 S.C. 201 (1957)

98 S.E.2d 251

RUBY BERRY HARRIS, as Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Fulton Dukes Berry, Appellant, v. THELMA McINTOSH BERRY et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

May 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Nelson, Mullins & Grier, of Columbia, and J. Howard Yates, of Charleston, for Appellant.

Messrs. Winter & Winter, Frank L. Taylor and Eugene F. Rogers, of Columbia, for Respondents.


May 7, 1957.

LEGGE, Justice.

On February 27, 1952, Fulton Dukes Berry, of Richland County, then a patient in the Veteran's Hospital at Kecoughtan, Virginia, executed an instrument purporting to be his last will and testament, in which he named as executrix his sister Ruby Berry Harris. On April 22, 1952, he died; and the said instrument was, on the petition of Mrs. Harris, admitted to probate in common form by the...

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