Khederian v. Hnot

An attorney in no way related to Sam Karabatian, drafted a will for him in which the attorney was to receive a bequest for $10,000 and was named executor. Using a different scrivener, Karabatian subsequently made another will in which he left the attorney nothing. After Karabatian’s decease, the attorney contested admission of the later will to probate, claiming that the decedent was a victim of an insane delusion. This appeal follows an order granting proponent’s motion for a directed verdict, made at the conclusion of contestant’s proofs.

Of the numerous questions contestant raises, only…