Thomas v. Young

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the lower court denying probate to a contested will. The instrument in question purported to be the last will and testament of Mary Elizabeth Young Thomas, deceased. The testatrix died seized of an undivided one-half interest in a residence property on Eighteenth street in the District of Columbia, and a small quantity of personal property of doubtful value. Her surviving relatives were her mother, her husband, Ernest Charles Thomas, and her brother, Walter Owen Young. She had no children.

By the terms of the will she devised all her…