Case ID: ohio-law-abs_2/html/0676-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MARSHALL, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 708
    No. 18241
    Herman Hane v. Mary M. Kintner et al.
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Defiance county.
    1271. WILLS — Dispositive character of words appearing below the signature — In con-tetst of, after) prima facie case is made, pro-ponentsi of will be entitled to submit evidence, and cause must be submitted to jury to determine whether; signature is at the end of the will.
   MARSHALL, C. J.

Where a will is signed by the testator and certain words appear below the signature and it is claimed by the proponents of the will that the words following the signature are without meaning, are not dispositive and have no relation to the dispositive provisions of the will which precede the signature and where such will has been duly probated and upon a contest of such will the order of probate and the will are offered in evidence a prima facie case is made and the proponents of the will are entitled to offer competent “other evidence” and the cause must be submitted to the jury under proper instructions 'for its determination whether the signature is at the end of such will.

Judgment reversed.

Day, Allen and Conn, JJ., concur.