Lawrence v. First National Bank of Tuskaloosa

BEATTY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment based upon a jury verdict in favor of the proponent in a will contest. We affirm.

The contestants contend that the trial court erred in refusing a certain jury instruction and in allowing certain testimony on the issue of mental competency, and they contend that the verdict was against the great weight of the evidence.

The testator, James Alexander Lawrence, was born in Hale County on November 5, 1899. He executed the will in question on May 16, 1980, and died on January 16, 1985.

Mr. Lawrence had attended the University of Alabama in 1918 and…