In Re Estate of Forsythe

1 Reported in 22 N.W.2d 19. Ida E. Forsythe, whose testamentary capacity is in issue, died July 21, 1941, at the age of 78 years, with a gross estate of approximately $20,000 and leaving an instrument purporting to be her last will dated July 24, 1937. She had no children. Her closest surviving relative was a half sister. Testatrix and her husband, Albert Forsythe, had made companion wills in 1930, but, upon his death in 1931, she made a new will wherein, after certain specific bequests of a minor nature, she bequeathed her residuary estate in nine equal shares to St. Paul's Episcopal Church…