Matter of Estate of Russell

DURHAM, Justice:

Gene J. Russell, Geneil P. Russell, Helen Russell Green, and Ada J. Russell (contestants), the children and first wife of decedent Mervin J. Russell, appeal from a jury verdict in a testacy proceeding which validated the decedent’s will and the document cancelling an antenuptial agreement with his second wife, Georgia J. Russell. We affirm.

The dispute centers around real property that Mervin Russell repeatedly promised to his son Gene but ultimately devised to Georgia. The contestants initiated a formal testacy proceeding contesting the validity of the decedent’s will, two…