Dixon v. Webster

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING OR TRANSFER

In their motion for rehearing or for transfer to the Supreme Court respondents say that this court has imposed a requirement that the evidence show that the testatrix must be reasoned with and attempts must be made to dissuade her from her non-factional beliefs in order to establish an insane delusion, and that the same is contrary to Missouri decisions. Cited is Byars v. Buckley, 461 S.W.2d 817 (Mo.1970). That case, loe. cit. 461 S.W.2d 820[3], iterated the rule enunciated in this opinion, “ ‘An insane delusion is defined to be a false and fixed belief not…