Court Opinion

ID: 9326549
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-12-15 18:18:30.464564+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:15:05.615240
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LINDSAY, GANS and EDWARDS, JJ.
This matter comes before the Court by caveat to the will and codicil of said Wm. Livingston by Wm. A. and Charles Henry Livingston, sons alleging unsoundness of mind and ignorance of content of said will and codicil of said testator.
A subsequent will of this testator was taken on issues to the law Court, where it was tried before a jury, and was set aside.
A part of the evidence produced in the law Court was reproduced in this Court touching the incapacity of the testator to make a will — a portion of it being read from notes of stenographer, and another portion repeated by witnesses who testified in that case.
This will not having been received to probate placed no obligations upon the named executor to defend it; but this Court brought out so much of the testimony on the side of the defense as was deemed necessary to put the whole case fairly before the judicial mind.
Having considered all the facts in the case, in connection with the law which sacredly guards the rights of persons to dispose of their property by last will and testament. The Court cannot see that such a degree of incapacity has been established as would justify it to set this will and codicil aside.
Wherefore, it is this 28th day of February, 1891, ordered by the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City that the will be sustained, and the caveat thereto dismissed with costs.