POWELL v. THIGPEN

27980.

230 Ga. 760 (1973)

199 S.E.2d 251

POWELL v. THIGPEN.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided July 2, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Jones, Jr., E. Herman Warnock, for appellant.

J. Carlton Warnock, Smith & Harrington, Will Ed Smith, for appellee.


NICHOLS, Justice.

This appeal arises from a judgment directing a verdict for the propounders of a will. The testator, a bachelor, executed the will in 1966 when he was 77 years old. He left all his property to one sister, thereby excluding his only other sister, the caveatrix. The caveat was based on these grounds, undue influence, lack of mental capacity and monomania. On the trial, the propounders proved a prima facie case and the burden of going forward with the...

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