Poindexter v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a “declaratory revocation may assume the shape of a last will and testament” but that this is not necessary for a document to nonetheless effectively revoke a previous will
• “The court recognized and emphasized the settled doctrine that there must be indicia of testamentary intent on the face of the paper.”
• “The indicia of testamentary intent must be found in the paper itself, and evidence aliunde [from another source] to supply this vital and necessary characteristic is not permitted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).