Bank of Commerce & Trust Co v. Stavros

This is a will contest case tried in the circuit court of Shelby county on an issue of devisavit vel non. The will of George Stavros, who died in Shelby county, Tenn., on July 3, 1933, was duly admitted to probate in common form and in the probate court of Shelby county, Tenn., on July 11, 1933; and on the 11th of May, 1934, a petition for contest was filed by his widow, Florence Murley Stavros, alleging that George Stavros did not have mental capacity to make a valid will at the time the will was made. Issues were properly joined in the circuit court and tried to a jury and the circuit…