Cowan v. Cowan

Kenna, Judge:

This chancery proceeding comes here as a case certified from the Circuit Court of Monongalia County. It involves the probate of the will of A. B. Cowan, the bill of complaint having been intended to raise questions that would test the validity of that will more than three years after an order of the County Court of Monongalia County confirming as a probate order an ex parte order entered by its Clerk admitting the will in question to probate although not witnessed. After having overruled a demurrer to the defendants’ answer the circuit court on its own motion certified to this…