ROLAND v. WEAKLEY


346 S.W.2d 578 (1961)

Thomas R. ROLAND and Charles A. Roland, by their next friend, Joe Roland, v. Ewell T. WEAKLEY, Executor of the estate of Delthia Thomas, deceased, and the estate of W. H. Thomas, deceased.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 5, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin Murchison, Roger G. Murray, Jackson, E. T. Palmer, W. S. Draper, Jr., Dyersburg, for appellants.

Weakley & Weakley, Dyersburg, for appellees.


PREWITT, Chief Justice.

The appellants here filed this bill seeking to set aside the last will and testament of W.H. Thomas, deceased, on the ground that the probate thereof had been obtained by means of fraud, that the purported will was a forgery, etc.

The lower court upheld the probate and dismissed the bill.

It is the theory of the appellants that the purported will of W.H. Thomas, deceased, was a forgery.

The appellants are Thomas R. Roland...

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