In re Holt's Will
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by contestants, Lydia Borden and Mary A. Holt, from a judgment of the District Court of Dakota County, F, M. Crosby, J., entered June 15,1893, affirming the judgment of the Probate Court. On March 24,1892, Julia C. Holt, a widow seventy years old, made her will at the house of her daughter, Georgiana Needham, in Farmington. She gave the most of her small estate to Mrs. Need-ham, to the exclusion of her other children.
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Appeal by contestants, Lydia Borden and Mary A. Holt, from a judgment of the District Court of Dakota County, F, M. Crosby, J., entered June 15,1893, affirming the judgment of the Probate Court. On March 24,1892, Julia C. Holt, a widow seventy years old, made her will at the house of her daughter, Georgiana Needham, in Farmington. She gave the most of her small estate to Mrs. Need-ham, to the exclusion of her other children. W. A. Gray and Mrs. Needham’s husband were the attesting witnesses to the will. The testatrix died April 3, 1892. The will was presented in the Probate Court and was…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The will in question here contains a legacy to Georgiana Needham, estimated by the testator at about $400. The will was attested by two witnesses, one of whom was E. Z. Needham, who is and was at the time of such attestation the husband of Geor*35giana. Mrs. Needham is the proponent of the will, and in the Probate Court objection was made by the contestants, appellants here, to the allowance and probate of the will on the ground that E. Z. Needham, the husband of the proponent, was not a competent witness to the will.
The action of the Probate Court, allowing the will, having been affirmed by the…
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