Ward v. Morris
Supreme Court of Georgia
Appeal from probate of will. Before Judge Wright. Floyd superior court. July 19, 1921.
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, J.
1-3. Except the fourth and fifth, none of the head-notes require elaboration.
*4224. One ground of the motion for a new trial complains that the court erred in excluding from the evidence a former will executed with the formalities required by law on May 17, 1904, the will sought to be probated having been executed on July 4, 1917. The caveat was based on the ground that the testatrix did not have testamentary capacity to make a will, and that she was induced to make the purported will by fraud and undue influence of John F. Ward, the original propounder,, now deceased,. who was the sole…
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