Simpson v. Holbrook

Citations

• 21 Wash. 410
• 58 P. 207
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 300

Syllabus

<p>GUT-MENTAL CAPACITY OP DONOR — EVIDENCE.</p> <p>Although the burden of maintaining the validity of a gift is upon the parties asserting it, the decree of the court sustaining the gift is ■warranted when it appears from the testimony of the attending physician and the majority of the disinterested witnesses, that the donor was fully competent to transact business, although suffering from the illness from which he afterwards died, and it was not established that there was any fraud or undue influence exercised upon him.</p>