Wheat v. Wheat

The first of the above-entitled cases is an appeal by the proponent from the decree of the Probate Court for the district of Darien denying admission to probate of a purported will of Roberta Stockton Cox Wheat dated November 1,1958. From this decision the proponent, who was the executor and virtually the sole beneficiary of the 1958 will, took an appeal to the Superior Court, alleging in his reasons of appeal that the wifi was duly executed by the testatrix, who was then seventy-four years old and of sound mind.

At the trial in the Superior Court, three interrogatories were submitted to the…