Abraham v. Wilkins

John Wilkins, of the State of Tennessee, filed a petition in the Lafayette Circuit Court, stating, that on the 9th day of November, 1851, his brother, Allen T. Wilkins, a resident of said county, died, seized of real and personal property, without having been married, and leaving no child lawfully begotten, father or mother, him surviving. That, after his death, James Abraham, who is made defendant, produced before the Probate Court of said county of Lafayette, a paper purporting to be the last will of said John Wilkins, which, on the 24th November, 1851, was probated and admitted to 2-ecord,…