McLaughlin v. Welsh

The appeal is from a judgment denying probate of the purported will of Ellen E. Ramey, deceased, entered April 1, 1922. The judgment was based upon the verdict of a jury in favor of contestants, finding, first, that the testatrix on March 1, 1921, the date of the execution of the will, was of unsound mind, and, second, that she was then acting under the undue influence of proponent and appellant, Charles E. Welsh. The testatrix was a maiden lady of the age of seventy-three years at the time of her death in November, 1921. She left surviving her one brother and several children and…