Obold v. Obold

William X. Obold, a resident of the District of Columbia, died in the District in June, 1945, leaving an estate of approximately $20,000. At his death he was a widower with three grown sons, and by his last will, dated October, 1941, he gave substantially his entire estate to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Diocese of Baltimore, to be used to build a Catholic church in a part of Maryland in which he had formerly lived. Appellants, who are his three sons, contested the will on the principal grounds that their father was at the time of its execution mentally incompetent to make a will, and…