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MATTER OF ESTATE OF EDWARDS

No. 57512.

520 So.2d 1370 (1988)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Jimmie D. EDWARDS, Deceased. Jerry William EDWARDS, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Jimmie D. Edwards, Deceased; Jerry William Edwards, Individually; and Jimmie Davis Edwards v. Mrs. Loree EDWARDS.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 2, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris C. Phillips, Jr., Wright & Phillips, Carthage, for appellant.

James E. Smith, Jr., Smith & Smith, Carthage, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and PRATHER and GRIFFIN, JJ.

GRIFFIN, Justice, for the court:

This case, involving testamentary capacity, comes to the Court from the Chancery Court of Leake County, which found against a will executed by Jimmie D. Edwards on September 30, 1982. We reverse.

On September 30, 1982, Jimmie D. Edwards drove to his son Jerry's house, asking Jerry to accompany him to the office of an attorney in order to draw a new will. When Jerry suggested Ed Smith, a longtime Leake County practitioner, Jimmie...

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