PHELPS v. WADDLE


400 S.W.2d 524 (1966)

Aubrey PHELPS et al., Appellants, v. James W. WADDLE et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otis White, Morgantown, Marshall Funk, Bowling Green, for appellants.

Walter Chyle, Jr., Morgantown, Woodward, Bartlett & McCarroll, Owensboro, for appellees.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

The heirs of H. C. Phelps, deceased (his cousins), have appealed from a judgment upon a jury verdict upholding the probate of a lost will of the decedent which devised substantially all of his large estate to a step-son and the latter's wife, the appellees.

Before the will was probated, administration proceedings were instituted and one Cecil Wilson was appointed administrator. He employed W. A. Moore as attorney. After the will was probated...

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