CAMPBELL v. KNOTT


327 S.W.2d 94 (1959)

Sherman CAMPBELL, Appellant, v. Louanna KNOTT et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing October 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis P. McHenry, Hopkinsville, Zeb Stewart, Frankfort, for appellant.

R. Pollard White, Hopkinsville, for appellees.


STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment upon a verdict that an instrument probated as the will of Virgie or Virginia Burrus is genuine and was properly executed.

The testatrix was an elderly colored woman of Hopkinsville, who died November 6, 1956. The instrument, dated October 22, 1956, devised her residence to Louanna Knott, who is referred to as "my foster daughter," though she did not occupy that relationship in the legal sense as the child...

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