Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1912 — Brief Wills. [ARTICLE]

Brief Wills.

Probably the briefest document ever probated as a will was a signed and dated memorandum, “Everything is Lou’s,” written by decedent in a railway train record book kept by him; his widows’ name being Lula. The instrument was held to be sufficient as a holographic will, however, in Smith v. Smith, 70 Southeastern Reporter, 491, by the Virginia supreme court of appeals. A note reading: “Dear Old Nance: I wish to give you my watch, two shawls, and also $5,000. Your old friend, E. A. Gordon" —was sustained as a will in Clark v. Ransom, 50 California, 505; and a dated and signed memorandum, “Mrs. Sophie Loeper is my heiress,” was upheld In Succession of Shrenberg, 21 Louisiana Annual, 280. —The Docket