Richmond Jury Throws Out
What Former Judge Willard Douglas, Jr.
Claimed was the Last Will And Testament
of Neverett A. Eggleston, Sr.
Former FBI Special Agent Testifies
That The Purported Last Will and Testament
of Neverett A. Eggleston, Sr.
Was a Forgery
August 20, 1999 -- Dr. Aurelia Eggleston Ford, a prominent Richmond Psychologist and
business woman in Jackson Ward, challenged her brother-in-law, former Judge Willard Henry
Douglas, Jr., his wife Jane Eggleston Douglas and her brother Neverett A. Eggleston, Jr.,
among others who were claiming to have been the beneficiaries to the exclusion of Dr. Ford
of the Last Will and Testament of her father, Neverett A. Eggleston, Sr. Dr. Ford claimed
that the purported Will, which Douglas claimed Eggleston executed in his presence at the
age of 101, was a forgery. To back up her claim, she requested a Former FBI Agent and
member of the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners to examine the document. He
concluded that the signatures were forged.
After a two day trial, a Richmond Jury concluded that the document offered by Douglas
and the other beneficiaries was not the Will of Neverett A. Eggleston, Sr.
Dr. Ford's attorney, Richmond civil rights attorney Thomas H. Roberts stated "The
jury reached the appropriate conclusion after listening to the witnesses. The signature on
the document offered as the Will did not bear any characteristics similarities to the
signatures of Mr. Eggleston, Sr. over the many years he banked at Consolidated Bank &
Trust Co. I have no doubt that Mr. Eggleston would be rolling over in his grave if he knew
that an attempt was made to disinherit his firstborn, Dr. Aurelia Eggleston Ford."
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Contact:
Thomas H. Roberts, Esq.
Thomas H. Roberts & Associates, P.C.
Virginia Civil Rights Attorneys
105 S. 1st Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
804) 783-2000
804) 783-2105
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