· 3/8/1973
In Re Estate of Paul Latimer Weir, Deceased. Margaret Partee Weihs v. Elizabeth Holmead
Citations
- 475 F.2d 988
- 154 U.S. App. D.C. 404
- 1973 U.S. App. LEXIS 11259
How courts have described this case
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- noting that standard for testamentary capacity is whether the testator understood “precisely what he was doing when he executed the contested will”
- noting that evidence showing testator “dressed conservatively, was occasionally forgetful, sometimes untidy . . . , and had some strange habits” to be “speculative and meaningless” in a challenge to testamentary capacity
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Judges: McGowan, MacKinnon, Wilkey
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