Patterson v. Mitchell

This was an issue of devisavit vel non upon the will of Mattie Gordon, deceased. The grounds of contest were that the testatrix was of unsound mind and that the will was procured by fraud and undue influence on the part of the defendant in error Ida Mitchell. It was submitted to a jury of Davidson County at the February term, 1928 of the circuit court, before Judge E. F. Lang-ford. The verdict and judgment were in favor of the will. The contestant’s motion for a neAV trial being overruled she appealed in error to this court, and has assigned fourteen errors which go to the propositions :(1)…