The single issue presented is whether a will disposing of the personal property of a soldier in actual military service was valid though he was under 21 years of age at the time of its execution and his death.
The decedent Richard James Knight was a private in the United States Marine Corps. In August 1950, while at sea en route to Korea, he wrote a letter directing...
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