Bassity v. Welch

This is an appeal from the decree of the Probate Court of the County of Suffolk allowing an instrument dated January 8, 1907, as the last will and testament of one Catherine Davis. Issues for the jury were framed by a single justice and the case was sent to the Superior Court for trial. There were three issues relating to the due execution of the will, the soundness of mind of the testatrix, and the procurement of the execution of the will by fraud and undue influence on the part of Catherine Shields, Mary Cannon and Bridget Gaygin, or either of them. In the Superior Court the jury answered…