In the Matter of Estate

300 A.2d 1 (1972)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Mary Emily Johnston REED, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

December 21, 1972.

Peter Warren Green, of Booker, Green, Shaffer, Berl & Wise, Wilmington, for appellant.

James T. McKinstry, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for appellee.

WOLCOTT, C. J. and CAREY and HERRMANN, JJ., sitting.

In 1963, testatrix executed a will in which she left $5.00 to her sister, the appellant, and the bulk of the estate to a charity. The testatrix died in 1970 and her sister now attacks the will on the grounds that the testatrix lacked testamentary capacity at…