Estate of Pond v. Faust

Citations

• 95 Wash. 346
• 163 P. 753
• 1917 Wash. LEXIS 791

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Testamentary Capacity — Insanity — Evidence—Suejtciency. Upon an issue as to testamentary capacity, the courts will presume sanity until the presumption is overcome; but a finding of incapacity will be sustained, where the question was largely one of the credibility of witnesses, and it appeared that the testator had frequent hallucinations and was at times unable to carry on a coherent conversation, and two years before making the will was suffering from a form of incipient senile dementia, and three or four months after making the will a hearing was had, she was then in an advanced stage of senile dementia, and a guardian was appointed.</p>