Jenkins v. Anderson

This is an appeal from an order refusing the admission to probate of a certain holographic instrument purporting to be the will of Hazel Anderson, deceased. The order was made after formal contest and jury trial. The authenticity of the instrument was not questioned, and the grounds of contest' assigned were that it had been executed under the undue influence of the proponent, who was the sole beneficiary and is the appellant here, that it had been executed when the testatrix was of unsound mind, and that it had been revoked. At the trial a nonsuit was granted as to the two latter grounds,…