Succession of Mithoff

This is a controversy between two sisters of the whole blood over the disposition made by their mother of her property by a donation inter vivos and by a last will.

The mother, Mrs. Emma Mithoff, widow of Francis R. Cogswell, died in this city on July 31, 1926.

She was survived by two daughters, Mrs. Zulia Cogswell Lacy, residing in Virginia, and Miss Olive Cogswell, who resided with her mother in this city. There survived also two grandsons, issue of the marriage of a predeceased daughter, Lillian Cogswell Boone, who lived and died in Mississippi. The grandsons are not parties to this suit.

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