Court Opinion

ID: 9633264
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:40:50.341478+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:32.061476
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*507WHITE, P. J.
I concur. I am satisfied that the evidence in the ease at bar entitled the trial court to find that a confidential relationship existed between the testatrix and appellant, coupled with activity on the part of the latter in the preparation of the will, and from which a presumption of undue influence arose. This I say because, notwithstanding appellant’s admission that the testatrix told her, “You get in touch with Attorney Williams, because whenever-1 want any legal matters taken care of he is the one that takes care of them,” appellant nevertheless called another attorney of her own selection to prepare the will, and admitted that she knew in advance that the attorney she contacted was going to prepare the will so that it would leave her sole beneficiary thereunder. Appellant also paid the attorney in question for his services in preparing the will, had talked with the testatrix about making a new will, and was present at its execution. Attorney Williams, above referred to, had been the attorney for the testatrix since 1940. These and other evidentiary facts not necessary to here narrate, in my opinion, make the question of undue influence in the case at bar one of fact for determination by the trier of fact.