Bethany Hospital Co. v. Hale

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J. :

William Swartz, a bachelor sixty years of age, died in Bethany hospital, at Kansas City, Kan., in February, 1900.' He left a will by which there was bequeathed to one C. Hale the sum of $1200, and to John Kelly some small notes and accounts. The residue of his estate was bequeathed to the Bethany Hospital Company. The deceased was an inhabitant of Jewell county. When the will was offered for probate in that county, the defendant in error, Emma Swartz Hale, resisted its probate, asserting an inheritable interest in the property of the *368deceased…