Pickett v. Cooper

This is an action to contest the will of Walter S. McColly devising and bequeathing realty and personalty of approximate value, $21,000. Testator's mental capacity was the issue; and the jury found the purported will was not the last will and testament of deceased. Defendant-proponent, James F. Cooper, the residuary legatee, has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

Walter S. McColly died December 18, 1943, at the age of eighty years. The contested instrument had been made on November 3, 1943, while testator was confined in General Hospital at Mexico, Missouri. Testator was not survived by…