McFarland v. Clark

This is an action commonly known as a will-contest under the statutes.

The record discloses that there was no evidence offered by the contestants tending to prove a lack of mental capacity on the part of the testator to make the will, nor tending to prove undue influence, except the evidence of two physicians. No other issues were suggested throughout the record. These two physicians had no personal acquaintance with the testator, but, in answer to a hypothetical question based upon facts that had been testified to with more or less clearness by other witnesses, each stated that in his opinion…