Odom v. Linsey

This appeal, from a judgment adverse to contestants in a Will contest case, raises a single dispositive issue: Whether a general exception (objection) to a refused requested jury instruction sufficiently complied with ARCP 51 to invoke appellate review? In the narrow context here presented, we answer in the negative and affirm.

The charge in question reads as follows:

"If the jury believe from the evidence that the instrument offered for probate as the will of Emma Lee Odom is the result or product of undue influence exercised by Lamon E. Linsey, Edna Lee Linsey, Lamon Tyler Linsey or any other…