Shaffer v. District Court Second Judicial District

Action involving the probate of the alleged last will and testament of Albert S. Livingston, deceased. The proponent, Edward L. Shaffer, is plaintiff in error here. Probate was denied in the county court, and on appeal to the district court, the issue on the proper execution, publication and declaration of the will was tried to a jury, which also found against the proponent. The district judge who presided below is named as a defendant in error because of alleged usurpation of conduct of proponent’s case at the trial. He adopts the answer brief of defendant in error, Robert Edwin Livingston,…