Scott v. Dodson

G-bifjbtN Smith, Chief Justice.

We are asked to say that a writing, executed in testamentary manner and with appropriate formality, was not the will of Mrs. Rita G. Boykin. This would contradict a Probate Court judgment that mental capacity was not lacking when the document was executed.

Appellants — Mrs. Boykin’s first cousins by the whole blood — insist it was unnatural for the testatrix to go beyond that line of relationship and favor second cousins by the half blood, and they point to irrational acts and demeanor extending over a long period, and to the fact that between 1892 and 1894 she…