Flemming v. Hall

This is a will contest case in which contestant attacked the validity of her uncle’s alleged last will and a codicil thereto. Her uncle, Albert F. Wood, died in 1960 at the age of 91 years. At jury trial in circuit court contestant argued that the will and codicil should be set aside because their execution had been procured through undue influence exercised upon testator by proponent May Flemming. At the close of all proofs the court granted proponents’ motion for a directed verdict, reasoning that there was nothing in contestant’s proofs which would suffice to sustain a jury finding of…