Wood v. Martin

Appellants, who initiated suit to challenge their father’s will, appeal the trial judge’s grant of appellees’ motion for directed verdict on the issue of due execution of the will. Appellants attempted to rebut the presumption of due execution by presenting evidence that the testator (their father) could not read, that he misidentified his son in the will, and that he made an unnatural disposition of his bounty. Although appellants alleged undue influence and their father’s lack of testamentary capacity, they presented no evidence pertinent to these claims; thus, even viewing the evidence in…