Jones v. Habersham

BRADLEY, Circuit Justice.

This is a bill filed by the heirs at law of Mary Telfair, seeking to have the devises and bequests of her last will adjudged inoperative and void, and a resulting trust in all of her estate declared in favor of said heirs, and that they may have a decree for their distributive shares thereof. The defendants demurred, and the question now arises on the demurrer. The will was made on the second day of June, 1875, when the testatrix was far advanced in years, and the probate thereof was strenuously contested, on various grounds, but was finally established on appeal by…