Breeden v. Stone

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• identifying the broad purpose of the Dead Man's Statute as guarding \against perjury by living interested witnesses when deceased persons cannot refute the testimony\
• reiterating the principle that “[a] testator has a fundamental right to ‘dispose of his property as he pleases.’”
• defining insane delusion as “‘persistent belief in that which has no existence in fact, and which is adhered to against all the evidence’”
• insane delusion must materially affect property disposition
• insane delusion must materially affect property disposition
• insane delusion must materially affect property disposition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).