In Re the Will of Pridgen

The assignments of error raise these questions: (1) Did the court correctly instruct the jury with respect to the formalities necessary to the execution of an attested will; (2) was there error in the charge with respect to mental capacity necessary for a testamentary disposition of property; and (3) was there error in the exclusion of evidence bearing on the first two questions?

Mr. Pridgen was in a hospital in Lumberton from 25 September to 30 September 1957. Pie had earlier that month spent several days in the Columbus County. Hospital. The doctors who examined him in Lumberton testified he…