In Re Ferguson's Estate

This is a will contest on the grounds of mental incapacity and undue influence. Proofs in the case were directed to the issue of mental capacity of the testatrix. June 6, 1918, Mary Ferguson, then 81 years of age, having a husband but no issue, executed the will in suit, making bequests to 27 named beneficiaries in various amounts. Those so named included three sisters, numerous nephews and nieces and two societies. The residue she gave, in equal parts, to her husband, the Protestant Orphan Asylum, and the Florence Crittenton Mission, both of Detroit. April 2, 1920, she executed a codicil…