Dillon v. Phillips

ROSSMAN,

In this will contest, the personal representative of the decedent’s estate appeals the trial court’s determination that the decedent’s will was void as a product of an insane delusion. We reverse.

Respondents are three of the four children 1 of Richard Dillon, who executed his holographic will in California in 1984, and two weeks later, on the advice of an attorney who had reviewed the will, executed a codicil. Dillon left nothing to his children and made statements about them in his will. With regard to Sarah, the will states:

“The last time we met she declared that she wished I would…