Shevlin v. Jackson

Daniel J. Cave, a resident of Chicago, died on May 8, 1950, leaving real estate and personal property valued at $8000. An instrument purporting to be his last will and testament was denied admission as such, by the probate court of Cook County, but on appeal to the circuit court an order was entered admitting the writing as his last will and testament. His three sisters, as his only heirs-at-law, thereafter filed the present suit to contest the will in the circuit court of Cook County on the ground of mental incapacity of the testator and undue influence exercised by Margaret Jackson, the…