In re the Probate of the Will of Wilcox

Adlington, S.

—The question of the due execution of this will has been heretofore settled by the courts, and the only point now remaining to be determined arises out of certain alterations and erasures appearing on the face of the instrument. In two clauses of the will, in which legacies of $7,000 were given to the relatives of the testator, the letter “s” has been erased and the letters “el” substituted therefor, thus changing the amount of the legacies from $7,000 to $11,000. In another bequest the words “the use of” have been interlined, though the change is not really material. This…