Austin v. First Trust and Savings Bank

This cause is here on certiorari to review a judgment of the Appellate Court for the First District affirming a judgment of the circuit court of Cook county denying probate of two instruments of writing claimed by plaintiff in error to be codicils to the last will and testament of Anna B. Austin, deceased.

On March 18, 1907, Anna B. Austin executed a will and testament in which she devised and bequeathed all of her property to her husband, Frederick C. Austin, plaintiff in error. On January 2, 1914, she signed an instrument purporting to be a codicil to her last will and testament, giving and…