Clark v. Grimsley
District Court of Appeal of Florida
1Opinion of the Court
RAWLS, Judge.
We are here confronted with a contest between three surviving daughters as to disposition of their deceased mother’s estate. Two of the daughters (Jessie W. Clark and Julia W. Daugherty) are appellants and contend that the will admitted to probate which devised all of testatrix’s property to the third daughter (Nelle Whaite Stiles), appellee, was the product of undue influence by this sole devisee, and thus the trial judge erred in probating this document.
On December 13, 1970, testatrix, Ella Willis Whaite, died at the age of 97. Ap-pellee procured the admission to probate of…
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