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185 Ky. 561

Jacobs v. Meyers

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 31, 1919

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1919-10-31

<p>Appeal and Error — Wills—Will Contest. — In t'bis will contest case the jury was properly instructed and the evidence sufficient io support their verdict finding that the paper in controversy, was the last will of Mrs. Jacobs:</p>

Decided 1919-10-31

¶1Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Carroll

¶2Affirming.

¶3This is an ordinary will contest case. There is nothing new or novel about it. The validity of a codicil to the will of Mrs. Jacobs purporting to have been written by her by which she gave to Cornelia Meyers $2,000.00 was contested by the collateral kindred of the testatrix upon the grounds that the codicil was not wholly in the handwriting of Mrs. Jacobs; that she did not have testimentary capacity; and that its execution was procured by the undue influence of Mrs. Meyers.

¶4The evidence_ in the case, as in all cases of this character, was conflicting upon the issues in controversy, and it is our opinion that the weight of the evidence conduces to show that Mrs. Meyers, the beneficiary, had great if not undue influence over Mrs. Jacobs growing out of the age of Mrs. Jacobs and the intimate relations existing ■between them, resulting from the position' of nurse' and attendant occupied by Mrs. Meyers at the time the paper in controversy was written and for some years before.

¶5The jury, however, after seeing the witnesses and* hearing the evidence, found the paper to be a codicil to the will of Mrs. Jacobs, and as their finding can not be said to be flagrantly against the weight of the evidence we can not disturb it.

¶6The instruction on the subject of undue influence' is criticized, but is substantially in the form of instructions upon this subject that have been approved by this court time and time again. ' . .

¶7Wherefore the'judgment is affirmed.

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