Estate of Butts

This is an appeal by the proponent and beneficiary under the will of Florence Belmont Butts, deceased, from a judgment and order refusing probate to the will, and also an .appeal from an order made after judgment denying the motion of proponent to enter judgment in his favor notwithstanding the verdict.

The original contest pleaded unsoundness of mind, lack of due execution, and undue influence. The defendant answered this original contest by traversing the same and also by setting forth an affirmative defense to the effect that at the date the will was executed the contestant had repudiated…