JOHNSON v. CARPENTER

No. 86-77.

718 S.W.2d 434 (1986)

290 Ark. 255

Bryan Patrick JOHNSON, Appellant, v. Carey CARPENTER, J.C. Penney Life Insurance Company & Allstate Insurance Company, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

November 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Martin, Jasper, for appellant.

Wright, Lindsey & Jennings by Patrick J. Goss, Howell, Price, Trice, Basham & Hope by Dale Price, Little Rock, for appellees.


NEWBERN, Justice.

The will of Monica Catherine Johnson was admitted to probate. The will named appellee Carey Carpenter or the High Foundation, of which Carpenter was a principal officer, as the main beneficiaries. The appellant, Bryan Patrick Johnson, the son of the decedent, challenged the will as having been the result of fraud or undue influence practiced upon his mother by Carpenter. The probate judge held the will was void. The effect of that holding was that...

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