Lee v. Stewart

The appellant, Lee a non compos mentis, by guardian filed a bill to contest the will of Pinkie Allen Lee, his wife, and, if the will should be adjudged to be valid as a will, to renounce it and take under the statute giving him the right to renounce. The will reads as follows:

“I, Pinkie Allen, of the city of Greenville, in the county of Washington, and state of Mississippi, being* of sound and disposing mind, memory and under standing, and being above the age of twenty-one, do hereby make my last will and testament in maimer and form following: 1st. I give, bequeath and devise to David Lee,…