 | 1927 - 960 էջ
...at the time the will was executed the testator, Henry Smith, did not have sufficient mind and memory to enable him to know and understand the business in which he was engaged, and that the will was not the free and deliberate offspring of a sufficiently rational mind and memory... | |
 | 1900 - 1192 էջ
...between one disposition and another, It is sufficient for the making of a will. The true question is, were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand the business In wiiich he was engaged at the time when he executed the will? Wilson v.... | |
 | California. District Courts of Appeal - 1908 - 766 էջ
...without prompting, to recollect the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing it and the objects of his bounty? To sum up the whole...form. Were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to eoable him to know and understand the business in which he was engaged at the time he executed the... | |
 | 1920 - 444 էջ
...determining whether or not a testator has been of sound mind and disposing memory, the question is were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand the business in which he was engaged at the time when he executed the will? "A man of... | |
 | 1922 - 446 էջ
...Wilson v. Mitchell, 101 Pa. 495. '"'To sum up the whole in the short, simple and intelligible form, was his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand the business in which he was engaged at the time he executed the will? * * * The test... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1877 - 572 էջ
...distribute it between them ? or, as was said by WASHINGTON, J., in Stevens v. Vanclece* 4 Wash. CCR 267, " To sum up the whole in the most simple and intelligible...memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand the business in which he was engaged at the time when he executed his will ?" Such plain... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1888 - 788 էջ
...1ll. 397; Carpenter v. Culvert, 83 id. 62; Freeman v. Easly, 117 id. 317. If the mind and memory are sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in which he is engaged at the time of executing his will, then he is of sound mind and memory, within the meaning... | |
 | 1923 - 610 էջ
...was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath; the manner of distributing it; and the objects of his bounty? To sum up the whole in the most simple and intelligent form, were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand... | |
 | David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - 1899 - 676 էջ
...capable of recollecting what property he was disposing of, and to whom he was disposing of it? In a word, were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know, and to under" stand the business in which he was engaged, at the time when he executed his will "—and... | |
 | 1906 - 196 էջ
...be without consideration and unenforceable. Incompetent persons. That one whose mind and memory are sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in which he is engaged has sufficient capacity to make a will is held in Mason v. Havens (Conn.) 3 LRA(NS) 172.... | |
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The question is not so much what was the degree of memory possessed by the testator ? as this : Had he a disposing memory ? was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath; the manner of distributing it; and the objects of his bounty?... 
