1919.    Present: Ennis A.C.J, and Loos A.J.

CROOS v. CROOS et al.

 46-D. C. Negombo, 1,701.

Last will-Unsound mini-Undue influence.

To impeach a will on the ground of undue influence, it must be proved . that the influence exercised amounted to coercion, i.e., compelled the testator to do something he did not want to do.

THE facts appear from the judgment.

A. St. V. Jayawardene   (with   him. Mutunayagam, Weerasinghe, and Hayley), for appellant.

Bawa, K.C. (with him Drieberg and Zoysa), for respondents.

Cur. adv. vult.

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October 28, 1919.  Ennis A.C.J.-

This   appeal  is  from   a  refusal   of  the   learned  District   Judge,        Croos v. Negombo, to grant probate of a will dated September 27, 1913, of         Croos the  late  Gabriel   Stephen  Rodrigo  of  Negombo,   which  was  pro­pounded by the appellant; and allowance of a grant of probate of a will dated June 2, 1913.

At the hearing the third respondent opposed the grant to the appellant on the ground that the September will was a forgery, and the eighth to the sixteenth respondents contended that the testator had destroyed the September will animo revocandi; they furthe