Hilfiker v. Fennig

On the day Henry Sheffer died, October 28, 1941, leaving a goodly estate in Jay County, there was a race to the court house for probate of two conflicting wills. The earlier bore date of March 29, 1933, with modifying codicils made in 1933 and 1939. The later will was signed August 2, 1941. Though it was term time for the Jay Circuit Court the clerk undertook the probate of the 1939 will and codicils. Before the records were completed and signed the attorney who drafted the 1941 will offered it for probate and at the same time filed written objections, signed by himself, to the probate of the…