KIRBY v. MANIES

No. 5-2410.

351 S.W.2d 429 (1961)

Charles KIRBY, Appellant, v. William Edward MANIES, Also known as Bill Wallace, Individually and as Executor, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

December 4, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gus R. Camp, Piggott, for appellant.

Trantham & Knauts, by Hugh W. Trantham, Piggott, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This is a will contest in which the appellant, Charles Kirby, seeks to set aside the will of his mother, Dora Wallace, for undue influence assertedly exercised by the appellee, the principal beneficiary of the will. The appellee is the testatrix's stepgrandson, being the grandson of her second husband. This appeal is from a judgment holding the will to be valid.

The testatrix lived for fifty years upon a forty-acre farm near Rector...

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