AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY v. PENNER


444 S.W.2d 751 (1969)

AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. Willie H. PENNER, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

September 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Reynolds, Robert W. Dickey, Bell, Orr & Reynolds, Marshall Funk, Bowling Green, for appellants.

Charles E. English, Harlan, Parker, Ricketts, Lucas & English, Bowling Green, for appellee.


EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Chief Justice.

A jury found that J. W. Penner did not have the mental capacity to make a will on January 21, 1966 (date of his will), for the reason that at that time and in fact for some years he labored under "an insane delusion" relative to his daughter-in-law, Mable Cox Penner.

The executor under the will prosecuted this appeal.

J. W. Penner was 80 years of age on January 21, 1966, when he executed his last will. He died September...

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