Boney v. Boney

Hunstein, Justice.

Mary Boney, the widow of Walter Boney, petitioned to probate the decedent’s December 1979 will, in which she was named executor and sole beneficiary of the estate. Wimbric Boney, the decedent’s adopted son, filed a caveat to the will, alleging that the will was the product of the decedent’s monomania. The basis for this allegation stemmed from a November 1979 incident from which the testator had developed the insane delusion that he and the propounder had been insulted when the caveator’s family had departed his home after refusing to eat food prepared by the propounder. A…