Brown v. Hall

Citations

• 85 Va. 146
• 7 S.E. 182
• 1888 Va. LEXIS 21

Syllabus

<p>1. Chancery Practice—Issue—Sills of exception—Several rulings — Though, to avoid confusion, it is better to take separate bills of exception to each ruling of the trial court, yet it is allowable in this State to embody in one bill exceptions to several rulings set forth with sufficient particularity.</p> <p>2. Idem — Wills—Issue—Cross-examination—Answer—Case at bar.—At trial of issue as to genuineness of holograph will charged to be a forgery, the propounder and sole legatee, from whose custody it was produced, and who and his son were the only witnesses of its genuineness, was asked, on cross-examination, if any other person besides himself knew of its execution. He answered that he told three persons, who were named. Motion to exclude this answer as not responsive, overruled;</p> <p>Held:</p> <p>Error.</p> <p>3. Idem—Evidence—Handwriting—Case at bar.—At such trial contestant offered to prove, by witness acquainted with handwriting of propounder of holographic will, but not with that of testatrix, that said will was in the handwriting of propounder. On objection, the evidence was rejected ;</p> <p>Held:</p> <p>Error.</p>