Bodeker v. Purdy

Hawkins, Justice.

This was an. appeal to Chatham Superior Court from the Court of Ordinary, involving the application of Velma Nelson Purdy to probate the will of Agnes Doyle in solemn form, to which Margaret Doyle Bodeker filed her caveat. At the time the case went to trial before the jury, the caveat was based solely on the ground of mental incapacity of the testatrix to make a will. After the close of the evidence in behalf of the propounder, and during the argument of counsel, the caveat was amended to allege “That the son of the propounder was the' scrivener of said will, and that the…