ESTATE OF LAUTH

Docket No. 24161.

180 Cal.App.2d 313 (1960)

4 Cal. Rptr. 764

Estate of FANNY LAUTH, Deceased. THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. (a Nonprofit Corporation) et al., Respondents, v. SAM M. LAW et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

April 26, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill, Farrer & Burrill and William S. Scully for Appellants.

Wright, Wright, Goldwater & Wright and Dudley K. Wright for Respondents.


FOURT, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on the special verdict of a jury, setting aside the probate of the decedent's purported last will and testament on two grounds; namely (1) incompetency and (2) undue influence. The contest was filed after the purported will had been admitted to probate.

The jury found affirmatively on each of the two issues, namely (1) that decedent lacked the requisite mental capacity at the time of executing her will on...

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