Hockersmith v. Cox

Frank Hockersmith, as conservator of the estate of Floyd Skeels, incompetent, filed suit in the circuit court of Iroquois County, contesting the will of Augusta Skeels, deceased, making Noel C. Cox, individually and as executor of the last will and testament of Augusta Skeels, the defendant.

Augusta Skeels, at the age of eighty years, died March 1, 1949, leaving a purported last will, dated November 13, 1948. She left as her only heir-at-law, Floyd Skeels, who was an inmate of the Elgin State Hospital at Elgin, Illinois. She owned real estate valued at approximately $22,000, and personal…