Purser v. McNair
Supreme Court of Georgia
Appeal from probate of will. Before Judge Graham. Bleckley superior court. July 39, 1931. George H. McNair, the nominated executor, filed'his application in tlie court of ordinary of Bleckley county, to probate in solemn form an instrument purporting to be the last will of Sallie J. Purser.
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Appeal from probate of will. Before Judge Graham. Bleckley superior court. July 39, 1931. George H. McNair, the nominated executor, filed'his application in tlie court of ordinary of Bleckley county, to probate in solemn form an instrument purporting to be the last will of Sallie J. Purser. J. P. Purser Sr., her husband, and J. P. Purser Jr., J. T. Purser, Pauline Purser, Eobert P., and Sam Purser, her children, filed their caveat to this application, alleging that said will was not signed by said Sallie J. Purser; that at the time of making the same she was not of sound and disposing mind…
1Opinion of the CourtHines, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. Counsel for plaintiffs in error insist only on one ground of the motion for new trial; and that ground complains of the refusal of the court to permit three witnesses to testify that the testatrix made, subsequently to May 4, 1916, the statement that “ she had made no will and had made no deed.” Counsel for the propounder objected to this evidence as being inadmissible. The court sustained this objection and rejected this testimony.
Declarations of a testatrix, made shortly after the date when her alleged will purports to have been executed, to the effect…
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