ALEXANDER, ET AL. v. HAMILTON

No. 38569.

216 Miss. 26 (1952)

61 So.2d 683

12 Adv. S. 1

ALEXANDER, et al. v. HAMILTON.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 15, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wynn, Hafter, Lake & Tendall, for appellants.

Ernest Kellner, for appellee.


McGEHEE, C.J.

This case involves the alleged invalidity of the purported last will and testament of Miss Annie Lou Alexander who was nearly 82 years of age when she wrote and signed the instrument as a holographic will. But the precise question presented on this appeal is whether or not the case should have been submitted to the jury on the ground of alleged mental incapacity when the issue of devisavit vel non was tried...

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