Caranci v. Howard

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Chief Justice.

This case comes before us on appeal from a judgment entered in Superior Court granting the motion of the proponent, Rudolph Caranci (proponent or Caranci), for judgment as a matter of law, admitting the 1990 last will and testament of Elizabeth M. “Bessie” Phillips (decedent or Phillips) to probate over the claim of the contestant Marion M. Howard that said will had been procured through undue influence on the part of the proponent. The facts insofar as pertinent to the instant appeal are as follows.

The decedent was born in 1899 and lived, nearly her entire…