Noone v. Olehy
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Franklin H. Boggs, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn
The circuit court of Champaign county entered a decree setting aside the probate of the will of Mary E. Villars on the finding of a jury that she was not of sound mind at the time of its execution and that it was not her will. The proponents of the will have appealed for a reversal of the decree.
Mary E. Villars, the testatrix, executed the instrument in controversy on October 14, 1918. She was a widow, fifty-six years old, without .children, her husband having died a number of years before, and her two daughters, their only children, having died before him. Five months after executing the…
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