West Virginia Code § 41-5-7

Appeal from probate order -- When to be taken; procedure
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Any person feeling himself aggrieved by any order or judgment of the county commission
admitting or refusing to admit any will to probate may, within three months, or, if such a
person be under any disability within three months after such disability ceases, file his
petition in the circuit court of such county, or before the clerk thereof, appealing to the
circuit court from such order or judgment, stating in the petition the groundes of appeal and
the parties interested in the probate of the will; and, in case of appeal, it shall be the duty of
the clerk of the county commission promptly to transmit to the clerk ofr the circuit court, the
will and all original papers filed or used in the proceedings for probate, together with copies
of all orders made therein. The clerk of the circuit court shall, upon the filing of such
petition, issue process thereon, and the case shall be proceeded in, tried and determined in
such court, regardless of the proceedings before the county tcommission, and in the same
manner and in all respects as if the application for such probate had been originally made to
the circuit court.

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