In Re Kirschbaum's Estate

The verdict was-against the will. Proponents had judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and contestants bring error. The question is undue influence exercised by testator’s wife as against his children of a former marriage.

Pizar Kirschbaum, the testator, in 1904, was a tailor in St. Louis. In that year his wife died, leaving five children, the eldest being a daughter, Pearl, about twelve years old. The father placed three of the children in a home for orphans in Cleveland, and, with Pearl and the remaining child, came to Detroit where he opened a tailor shop. Pearl did the work at the home and…