Duncan v. O'NAN

REED, Judge.

In this will contest suit, a circuit court jury found that a document probated in the Webster County court was truly the last will and testament of Mason Henry. The testator’s 81 nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews, who were disappointed in their hopes of inheritance, had appealed the probate of the document to the circuit court on the grounds that Mason Henry lacked mental capacity to make a will at the time of execution of the probated document and that the testator was the victim of undue influence practiced upon him by the principal beneficiaries under, the terms of…