DODSON v. WALTON

No. 80-38.

597 S.W.2d 814 (1980)

K. W. DODSON, Executor of the Estate of Lora E. Dodson, Deceased, Appellant, v. Fred WALTON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

April 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall L. Gammill, James M. Thweatt, Hazen, for appellant.

Moore & Serio, Clarendon, for appellee.


HICKMAN, Justice.

This probate case comes to us purely on a question of law: the effect of an interlineation or obliteration of a devisee's name by the testator.

The Probate Court of Prairie County decided that the attempt in this case to obliterate the name of a devisee was abortive, and that according to our cases the devisee's name had to be restored to the will as originally intended.

The facts are not disputed. Lora E. Dodson died in October,...

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