Shepherd v. Brooks

This is an action by other collateral relations of James II. Shepherd, deceased, against the heirs of Bezin D. Shepherd, deceased, and differs from the one just decided in demanding’ that the will of J. H. Shepherd be declared null, in whole — first, because it contains a substitution in favor of Abraham Shepherd, who was to take under it in case Bezin did not; or, secondly, because, taken in connection with a letter addressed to Bezin, of concurrent date, written, dated and signed by James, and fraudulently suppressed by Bezin, the two constituting the real will, it creates a substitution or…