Kingsbury v. Whitaker

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

This is a contest over the will of G. M. Bowditch, a resident of this city, who died in Sherborn, Massachusetts, on the 1st of August, 1877, and whose succession was opened and is now pending in *1056the Second District Oourt of the parish of Orleans. The plaintiffs, widow Sarah KiDgsbury, a sister, Granville Bowditch, a brother, William B. H. Dowse, a nephew, and Deborah P. Dowse, a niece, of the deceased, seek to have said will annulled on the ground of the insanity of the testator at the date of the will, and for several years before.

Defendants…