Keely v. Moore
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was an action of ejectment brought in the Supreme Court of the District by grantees of the heirs at law of William Thomson ■ against Joseph H. Moore and the firm of Thomas J. Fisher & Company, agents of Mary Cecelia and Georgiana Hawkes Thomson of the county of Kent, England, devisees under the will of William Thomson, to recover possession of an undivided ninety-one one-hundredths of certain real estate in the…
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was an action of ejectment brought in the Supreme Court of the District by grantees of the heirs at law of William Thomson ■ against Joseph H. Moore and the firm of Thomas J. Fisher & Company, agents of Mary Cecelia and Georgiana Hawkes Thomson of the county of Kent, England, devisees under the will of William Thomson, to recover possession of an undivided ninety-one one-hundredths of certain real estate in the city of Washington. Upon the trial it was admitted that William Thomson died in Southampton, England, in 1887, seized of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The validity of the will was: attacked upon three grounds: 1st, that it has not the requisite number «of witnesses to pass real estate in this District; 2d, that the testator wg,s of unsound mind; 3d, that undue influence had been exercised by one of the designated executors, and others.
Thomson was a resident of Washington, but at the time of- and for some years prior to his death wa$ the American consul at Southampton, England. One John H. Cooksey, a resident merchant at Southamptan,' was his vice consul. The will was prepared by Walter R! Lomer, a resident solicitor, and was éxecuted at his…
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