Vandegrift v. Lagrone

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered on a jury verdict in a will contest. The proponent, Randy Lagrone, filed a petition to probate his grandfather's will nine years after the testator's death. Randy's petition alleges that the time for filing the petition was tolled by his father's fraudulent concealment of the will's existence. Another of the testator's grandchildren, Jacqueline Lagrone Vandegrift, filed a contest of the will on the grounds that the petition to probate the will was not filed timely and that the will was the product of undue influence. The jury found in the proponent's…