Slaughter v. Heath
Supreme Court of Georgia
Appeal — probate of will. Before Judge Beagan. Butts superior court. December 21, 1905.
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
1-3. The motion for a new trial contained twenty-two grounds. It was granted on five of them; the others were-overruled. Both sides excepted. It was a second grant of a new trial. Several of the grounds are based on refusals to charge-as requested, to the effect that in order to destroy testamentary capacity there must be “a total deprivation of reason;” that to bring-about that result the testator must be non compos mentis, and that the law defines a person non compos mentis to be “one wholly deficient in understanding, or who by grief, sickness, or other-accident has wholly lost his…
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