In the Goods of O'Callaghan (Deceased)

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1933
• Date: 01 January 1933
• Court: High Court (Irish Free State)

[H. C., I.F.S.],

In the Goods of O'Callaghan

deceased

Evidence of due execution - Solicitor losing will ordered to pay costs.

Where the original will of a testator was not forthcoming from the offices of his solicitors in which it had been deposited, and evidence was given by a witness that he had copied the body of the will, which copy he exhibited, and that when so doing he had seen the signature of the testator and of the attesting witnesses each in his respective handwriting, and upon the consent of the next-of-kin, save as to one in America from whom no final reply had been received, having been obtained, it was held that the due execution of the will was...