In Re Sorter's Estate

One Alice Moad May Sorter executed a will in 1939, naming appellants herein as executor and executrix. She died December 17, 1943; appellants filed the instrument in probate court with a petition for admission to probate; and the appellees herein filed notice of contest, claiming that the testatrix was mentally incompetent at the time the alleged will was made. After hearing, the probate judge entered an order admitting the will to probate, the contestants appealed and the case was heard in the circuit court by a jury, which found that the testatrix was mentally incompetent at the time the…