Bauer v. Estate of Bauer

OPINION

J. CURTISS BROWN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s refusal to give a jury instruction on insane delusion in a will contest. Roger Bauer, thirty-one years old and on the verge of economic success, was visiting his mother, the appellant in this case, in Green Valley, Arizona during the Christmas holidays of 1983. On December 30 he wrote a holographic will in the form of a letter to his girlfriend, Lai Lee. A few minutes later he committed suicide.

The letter contains the following statement:

“My primary reason for doing this a near complete lack of family love. It is…