Farmer v. Farmer
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Ralls Circuit Court.-ABO'S. B. E. Turner, Judge. (1) The making of the last will similar to the first indicates that the insane delusion was continuous. Rucas v. Parsons, 27 Gra. 593; Bitner v. Bitner, 65 Pa.
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Appeal from Ralls Circuit Court.-ABO'S. B. E. Turner, Judge. (1) The making of the last will similar to the first indicates that the insane delusion was continuous. Rucas v. Parsons, 27 Gra. 593; Bitner v. Bitner, 65 Pa. St. 347. (2) Although the testator was in other respects perfectly sane, and a good business man, if he had an unnatural antipathy for his wife and children, •and labored under a delusion in reference to them which had no foundation in. reality, and the will was the offspring of such delusion, then the testator was controlled by such partial insanity as will invalidate and…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
This appeal is from a judgment of the circuit court of Ralls county establishing the last will and testament of Americus W. Farmer, deceased, late of said county. The contestants were his widow and all of his children save one, a daughter, Harriet E. Farmer, to whom he devised the principal portion of his estate, subject to a life estate of one third to his wife. A. W. Farmer executed the will in contest on the twenty-first day of January, 1892, and died the next day.
Over five years prior to the execution of the will in question he executed another will in which he made the same disposition…
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