Supreme Court of North Carolina December 5, 1855 (Bottoms v. . Kent)

Pearson, J.

This question is presented: upon an issue

devisavit vel non,

there is evidence tending to show that the propounder had procured the execution of the script, by threats of violence ; ought he to be allowed to prove that “he was a man of easy, quiet temper, and facile disposition, and therefore, not likely to exercise, or attempt the exercise of, the influence charged ?