The case illustrates the application of the Banks v Goodfellow testamentary capacity requirements where medical evidence casts doubt on the testator's ability to consider claims on the estate, and where the proponent's evidence is found unreliable. The power to control a testator does not, without more, establish undue influence amounting to coercion. Where improvements to property are made for the improver's own benefit and there is no evidence they added value, no equitable charge arises.
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