In re the Will of Cromartie

PHILLIPS, Judge.

Though caveators present fourteen questions for our consideration, they can be distilled into the following: Did the court err (1) in receiving into evidence improper, non-expert opinion testimony as to the testator’s mental capacity; (2) in refusing to admit proper testimony of that type favorable to the caveators; and (3) in refusing to admit into evidence portions of the testator’s hospital records? We answer the first two questions in the affirmative and the third in the negative.

Propounder’s witness, Roland Autry, who did not see the testator during November, 1974, but…