Nottage v. Jones

This is an appeal from a judgment in a will contest wherein the jury rendered a verdict in favor of the contestants. We affirm.

Yvonne Dunn Nottage, the proponent, offered for probate the purported last will and testament of her grandfather, Oscar Scott, Sr. The contestants, Oscar's children, removed the administration of the estate from the probate court to the circuit court. They then filed a petition contesting the proffered will and alleged that the will had not been duly executed, that the proponent occupied a confidential relationship with the testator and that she used that position to…