Newkirk v. Knight

BERRY, Vice Chief Justice.

This appeal from a judgment in a will contest presents the issue whether an improper, illicit, or meretricious relationship existing between the principal beneficiary and testator is sufficient to require finding of undue influence in execution of the will ?

May 14, 1952, James G. Newkirk executed a will, pertinent provisions of which stated:

“SECOND: I give and devise to Miss Pauline Knight, all of my property, real, personal and mixed of every kind wherever situated, whether vested or contingent at the time of my death, to he absolutely hers, free and clear of any…