Legal Opinion

Lyons v. Bloodworth

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 6, 1945No. 15094PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Atkinson, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Whether any or all of the foregoing testimony in reference to the mental condition of the testatrix after the execution of her will would be sufficient to establish a lack of testamentary capacity such as would prevent her from revoking her existing will need not here be determined. Assuming that after the execution of her will she became mentally incapacitated to revoke the same, yet, from an examination of the testimony relating thereto, there is no definite time indicated therein from which a jury would have been authorized to find…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Manley v. CombsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1944
  2. Scott v. MaddoxSupreme Court of Georgia · 1901
  3. Wood v. AcheySupreme Court of Georgia · 1918
  4. Harris v. CampSupreme Court of Georgia · 1912
  5. Peek v. IrwinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1929

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Saliba v. SalibaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1947
  2. Fehn v. ShawSupreme Court of Georgia · 1945
  3. Horton v. BurchSupreme Court of Georgia · 1996
  4. Williams v. SwintSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
  5. Looney v. LooneySupreme Court of Georgia · 1945

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