Legal Opinion
Needham Trust Co. v. Cookson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 29, 1925PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSanderson, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court disapproving and disallowing the last will and testament of Agnes Davidson, dated November 18, 1923, upon the ground that the testatrix at the time of making the same was not of sound and disposing mind. The only question presented is whether upon all the evidence the judge was warranted in disallowing the will upon the ground stated in the decree.
At the time the will was signed, the testatrix, about eighty-seven years of age, was confined to her bed and suffering from lobar pneumonia of which she died three days later. *161The testimony tended…
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