Leach v. Alger

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

Reversing.

This appeal is from a judgment setting aside the will and codicil of E. R. Alger, deceased, on the grounds of undue influence and mental incapacity. The will was executed in 1942 and the codicil, prepared in Alger’s own handwriting, was executed in 1944. Alger left surviving him the .appellees, six legitimate children, all of age. He claimed also that he was the father of four illegitimate children, two of them by a Mrs. Shearwood, ■one by a Mrs. Palmer, and one by Hattie Leach. These ■children ranged from 16 years to 9 months in age. Alger’s last…