Capner v. Holbrook

This appeal is prosecuted by complainant, Lena Capner, to reverse a decree of the circuit court of Cook county, entered January 21, 1933, wherein the court, in a proceeding instituted under a provision of section 7 of the “Act in regard to Wills” (Cahill’s St. 1931, ch. 148, ¶ 7, p. 2763), adjudged and decreed that the instrument in writing offered in evidence pur- . porting to be the last will and testament of Charles E. Hammerly, deceased, “is his last will and testament,” and that complainant’s bill “be and is hereby dismissed for want of equity.”

In the preamble of the decree it is stated…