MARTIN v. DEERMAN

81-799.

428 So.2d 619 (1983)

Evelyn Deerman MARTIN, etc. v. Lillie DEERMAN.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 4, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. King and Daniel B. King, Gadsden, for appellant.

Ralph Smith, Jr., Guntersville, and L. Drew Redden and Gerald L. Miller of Redden, Mills & Clark, Birmingham, for appellee.


FAULKNER, Justice.

This is an appeal arising out of a will contest. The contestant avers that the trial court gave erroneous jury instructions regarding the burden of proving the proper execution of the will. We find no such error in the jury instructions.

Fate Deerman died on April 3, 1980. The will involved is dated November 2, 1959. Mr. Deerman's widow, Lillie Deerman, filed a petition for letters testamentary in the Marshall County Probate Court on October...

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