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Loi. Holmes only close relative, his sister, Ruth, who died just three months after her brother, left instructions in her will, directing her executor to challenge her brother’s bequest. In the three week long trial, lawyers for Ruth Holmes' estate argued that the colonel was not mentally competent when he signed the one-paragraph typewritten will in his bed at Bethesda Naval Hospital the day after Dr. Nielson told him he had just two weeks to live. In addition, they maintained that Holmes executed the will while under Dr. Nielson’s ‘‘undue influence" and that the document had been fraudulently altered.
Ten Rappahannock jurors deliberated less than three hours before finding that the w ill was valid.
Attorneys for Betty Paleologos. the executrix of Ruth Holmes' estate, asked that the verdict be set aside, alledging that Judge Shore Robertson gave the jury misdirections in his hour long instructions On the law before deliberations began.
Peter Luke, local counsel on Nielson’s legal team, countered that the jury had spoken. He maintained that a review of the evidence by the judge, as requested by the
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