Murphy v. Nett
Montana Supreme Court
'Appeal from, District Court, Lewis and Clark County; J„ Miller Smith, Judge. Contest of will of Edward J. Murphy, deceased, by Mary Murphy 'against Anna E. Nett. Judgment for contestant, and eontestee appeals.
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'Appeal from, District Court, Lewis and Clark County; J„ Miller Smith, Judge. Contest of will of Edward J. Murphy, deceased, by Mary Murphy 'against Anna E. Nett. Judgment for contestant, and eontestee appeals. It is a matter of notoriety that attacks on testamentary dispositions have become alarmingly frequent; indeed, it may safely be said that in the lay mind the only excuse which is needed for such an attack is dissatisfaction on the part of a deceased person’s heirs at law with the provisions of such a disposition; and seldom it is that a jury fails to respond favorably to the clamors of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Brantly
On December 24, 1909, Anna E. Nett, defendant, filed a petition in the district court of Lewis and Clark county asking for an order admitting to probate a paper purporting to be the last will and testament of Edward J. Murphy, deceased, and to have been executed at Portland, Oregon, on December 12, 1908. The paper bears the signature of the deceased, attested by two wit*361nesses pursuant to the form prescribed by the statute. On January 8, 1910, Mary Murphy, plaintiff, the mother of the deceased, filed her written opposition to the probate, alleging, in substance: (1) That, at the time of the…
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