Wheeler v. Whipple

The Ordinary.

This is an appeal from a decree which admits to probate a paper purporting to be the last will of Betsy Ann Kingsbury, who died unmarried at Ocean Grove, in this state, in September, 1886, at the age of sixty-five years.

The disputed paper was executed on the 2d day of June, 1883, and gives the entire estate of the decedent to Myra Whipple, who was Miss Kingsbury’s companion for the fifteen years immediately preceding her death.

The appellants were the caveatriees below, and are the nieces and next of kin of the decedent. They claim that the disputed instrument is the product of…