Legal Opinion

In Re Will of Hardee

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided March 12, 1924PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtStacy, J.

There was ample evidence to support tbe verdict, and tbe record presents but a single serious exception, or one not involving settled principles of law. Propounder assigns as error tbe following portion of tbe charge:

“Tbe exclusion of some of tbe children from tbe benefits of tbe paper, and giving of tbe whole estate to one child in tbe absence of some reasonable ground for such preference, would constitute what tbe law calls an unnatural will, and such facts may be considered with tbe other evidence in tbe case, as evidence upon tbe questions of mental capacity and of undue influence.”

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2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. In Re Will of MuellerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1915
  2. In Re Daniel Burns' WillSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897
  3. In Re Worth's WillSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1901

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. State v. CameronSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1973
  2. McNeill v. . McNeillSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1943
  3. Hunt v. EureSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1925
  4. Exum v. LynchSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1924
  5. Hunt v. . EureSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1925

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