Duff v. May

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Keversing.

The paper offered for probate as the will of Mrs. Elizabeth Akeman provides for the payment of her debts, the erection of a monument, and bequeaths certain articles of bed clothing to a nephew and the rest of her estate to Ira J. Duff, who was not related to her. The judge of the county court, a nephew by marriage of the deceased, refused to probate the will, and an appeal was taken to the circuit court. The deceased’s heirs were five brothers and sisters and a number of nieces and nephews, some of whom successfully prosecuted a contest…