IN RE ESTATE OF EDWARDS

No. 82-1445.

433 So.2d 1349 (1983)

In re the ESTATE OF Francis N. EDWARDS, Deceased. Louella EDWARDS, Juanita Ensley Mattox, Nellie Durfee and Ethel Rebecca Edwards, Appellants, v. CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF LEESBURG and Richard Vance Freeman, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

July 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P.B. Howell, Jr., of Howell & Taylor, P.A., Leesburg, for appellants.

Mary M. McDaniel of Ford & Minkoff, P.A., Tavares, for appellees.


ORFINGER, Chief Judge.

The issue on appeal is whether the decedent had testamentary capacity when he executed his last will and testament. The trial court rejected a petition to revoke probate of the will and we affirm.

Francis N. Edwards died in Leesburg, Florida, on November 3, 1981. His last will, dated October 29, 1981, devised his entire estate to the appellee Richard Freeman, a casual employee of five years. Soon after the will was admitted to probate...

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