Court Opinion

ID: 3303764
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 17:19:16.25435+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:27:25.959930
License: Public Domain

I concur. I am of the opinion that the true test by which to determine whether the requirement of our law that the testator shall subscribe his name at the end of the will has been complied with, and the will, therefore, in that respect executed, is as stated in the concurring opinion of the chief justice. To comply with the statute, the name must, of course, be subscribed after the termination of the testamentary provisions, and where it is so placed the mere extent of space between such termination and the subscription ought not to affect the question as to whether the statute *Page 468 
has been complied with, if the document on its face, disregarding the signatures of the witnesses and all evidence aliunde, fairly indicates that the name was so placed by the testator as a subscription and for the purpose of execution. The extent of space is, of course, material upon the question as to what the document does indicate upon its face.
The document in question does not measure up to this requirement.
Shaw, J., concurred.