McNeil v. Jacobsen

The proponent of an instrument dated May 30,1974, and purported to be the will of Carrie Jacobson appeals from an order entered by the Circuit Court of Jefferson County denying its admission to probate. Following the hearing on the petition to admit the will, the court found that all the elements necessary to admit the will had been proved except one — that the testator was of sound mind and memory when she signed the will.

In a proceeding to admit a will to probate, the court’s determinatiois governed by section 6 — 7(a) of the Probate Act of 1975 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 110/2, par. 6 —…