Johnson v. Briggs

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.:

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court of Shawnee county admitting to probate a certain instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Grace G. Kemper, deceased, and reversing the probate court of that county in the latter’s refusal to admit such instrument to probate.

On July 29, 1942, Grace G. Kemper, a widow, died a resident of Shawnee county, Kansas. Within a short time thereafter a petition for the probate of a will executed by her on June 1, 1942, was filed in the probate court of the county in which she…