Jamison v. Jamison
Mississippi Supreme Court
Feom: the chancery court of, first district, Chickasaw county. HoN. JohN Q. KobbiNs, Chancellor. Itobert S. Jamison, and others, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Mrs. Anna D. Jamison and others, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree in complainant's-favor defendants appealed to the supreme court.
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Feom: the chancery court of, first district, Chickasaw county. HoN. JohN Q. KobbiNs, Chancellor. Itobert S. Jamison, and others, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Mrs. Anna D. Jamison and others, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree in complainant's-favor defendants appealed to the supreme court. The complainants instituted this suit, as contestants, to have the will of A. J. Jamison declared invalid on the ground of undue influence exerted by the defendant, Mrs. Anna D. Jami-son, the aged testator’s second wife; she and her children bom of her marriage with the…
1Opinion of the Court
WniTKiBLi), O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case is here for the second time. It is a contest over a ■will, and on both trials in the court below the jury have found for the contestants, and the argument now made is to secure a reversal because the evidence is not sufficient to show that undue influence was used in the procurement of this will.
In the case of Blackman v. Edsall, 17 Colo. 429, 68 Pac. 792, a recent well-considered case, the court said: “The chief *298complaint and contention of the proponent is that the evidence-presented, and upon which the jury based its verdict…
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