Court Opinion

ID: 9529437
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:50:49.331804+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:27:47.055373
License: Public Domain

GIVENS, Justice.
I concur with the portion of the opinion by TAYLOR, J,, reviewing and analyzing authorities culminating in the holding that the burden of proof herein was upon the donee to establish the transaction was fair and just and free from any taint of fraud or undue influence.
It is apparent the trial court did not apply this rule of law in making his findings and conclusions and this error is, therefore, so serious and so prejudicial that, considered in connection with other erroneous *327rulings excluding admissible evidence raised by assignments VIII and IX, requires a new trial be had. v
The judgment and decree are, therefore, reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial. Costs to appellant.
This disposition renders unnecessary and, therefore, inopportune, a review of the evidence, which should be left for the trier of facts upon a new trial,
THOMAS, J., concurs in ordering a new trial.