In re Estate of Martin
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal erom Probate. Trial by jury at the Special June Term, 1917, Windsor County, Stanton, J., presiding. Verdict for contestant. Proponent excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
On January 26, 1916, Alonzo A. Martin executed an instrument purporting to be his last will’and testament. The validity of this instrument is here in question, and the only ground of contest is that he wás then of unsound mind and incompetent to make a will. The trial below was b.y jury *365and resulted in a verdict against the instrument. The case comes up on exceptions saved by the proponent.
Witnesses for the contestant were allowed, subject to the proponent’s exception, to relate facts and observations covering an extended period prior to the execution of the instrument in question, and…
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