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MOCK v. DOWLING

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266 S.C. 274 (1976)

222 S.E.2d 773

Betty C. MOCK, Appellant, v. G.G. DOWLING and Bankers Trust Company, Executors of the Estate of Lois Carter, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

March 3, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Gerald H. Cohen, and Thomas R. Taggart, of Savannah, Ga., and Ray P. McClain, of Epstein, McClain & Derfner, Charleston, for Appellant.

Messrs. Luke N. Brown, Jr., of Ridgeland, and William A. Ruth of Dowling, Dowling, Sanders & Dukes, Hilton Head Island, for Respondents.

March 3, 1976.

NESS, Justice:

This will contest is limited to the issue of undue influence. The appellant-contestant is Betty C. Mock, one of the two children of the testatrix. The trial court directed a verdict for the respondents, proponents of the will. Appellant argues the proof in its totality establishes a jury question on the issue of undue influence. We disagree.

Lois E. Carter, aged sixty at the time of her death, February, 1973, was survived...

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