Legal Opinion
Kelley v. Johns
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided July 12, 2002No. M1998-00912-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which WILLIAM B. CAIN and PATRICIA J. COTTRELL, JJ., joined.
This appeal involves an intra-family dispute over the validity of an 88-year-old decedent’s will leaving his farm to one of his nine children. After the will was admitted to probate in the Maury County Probate Court, six of the decedent’s children filed suit in the Circuit Court for Maury County asserting that their father lacked testamentary capacity when he executed the will and that the will had been procured by undue influence by the child who received the…
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