FIELDS v. FIELDS

Record No. 970112.

499 S.E.2d 826 (1998)

255 Va. 546

Henry M. FIELDS, et al. v. Bonnie Lou Salmon FIELDS, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reelia R. Watson, Abingdon, for appellants.

Barry L. Proctor, Abingdon, for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.


KOONTZ, Justice.

In this will contest, we consider whether the trial court properly determined that the testator lacked the requisite testamentary capacity at the time he executed the later of two wills offered for probate.

Robert McKinley Fields (testator) died on May 23, 1994, leaving two wills. The earlier of these two wills, dated August 28, 1975, was admitted to probate by the order of the clerk of the Circuit...

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