Conner v. Stanley

Citations

• 67 Cal. 315
• 7 P. 723
• 1885 Cal. LEXIS 628

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—Capaoitt to Contbaot—Opinion of Witnesses.—The issue presented to the jury for their determination was whether or not a deceased person had in his lifetime been in such a state of mind as to have been unduly influenced to make the contract in suit by the plaintiff, who claimed and was believed by the deceased to be a spiritual medium. Held, that the opinion of witnesses as to the capacity of the deceased to make contracts with those whom he believed to be mediums was inadmissible in evidence.</p>