Hollingsworth v. Rutledge

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves the action of the trial court in failing to charge George W. Rutledge, as administrator of his mother’s estate, with a sum of money turned over to him by her prior to her death upon the contention that the claimed gift to him of such sum' was invalid because, at the time of the delivery of the fund to him', she, the mother, was mentally incapable of making a valid disposition of her property or, in the alternative, that if not totally incompetent, it was the result of undue influence.

There is little doubt that the mother, Mrs. Rutledge, was a very…