Taylor v. Bushnell

The plaintiff, both in error and below, was in the lifetime of Mary S. Bradford and at her death, a collateral relative of the latter, to wit: a cousin-german. In default of descendants in the direct line, upon her decease he would have been her heir at law, upon whom, if she had died intestate, her estate would have been settled by devolution to him.

Mary S. Bradford at her death left a paper in due form of her last will and testament, and purporting to be such, and which as her last will has been duly admitted to probate and proved in the court to which the jurisdiction for that purpose…