| Miss. | Mar 15, 1910
delivered the oj» inion of the court.
The testimony in this case shows clearly that the testator exhibited his will to Oox and Phillips; two of the subscribing witnesses, stating to them that this was his will, that the signature to it was his signature, and that he had signed it. The testimony also clearly shows that M. E. Davis,‘another subscribing witness, .wrote the signature of Calvin Miller for him, and
There is nothing to tbe contrary of what .we have said on either of these points in Sheehan v. Kearney, 82 Miss. 688" court="Miss." date_filed="1903-10-15" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/sheehan-v-kearney-7989011?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="7989011">82 Miss. 688, 21 South. 41, 35 L. R. A. 102. We held in tbat opinion — cited with approval by Wigmore on Evidence, in bis discussion of tbe subject (3 Wig. on Evidence, p. 2244) — that the declarations of a testator as to bis intentions with respect to the disposition of bis property, made before or after tbe execution of tbe will, or at tbe time of tbe execution of tbe will, are competent, upon well-settled principles, on tbe issue of undue influence and the issue' of insanity. Those are not tbe issues in tbis case.
Tbe decree 'is affirmed.