Huber v. Boyle

This is a contest over the will of Samuel Holmes.

Holmes died August 31,1932, leaving a purported will, dated February 21,1930', naming as his sole devisees and legatees his nieces Daisy M. Holmes and her sister, Florence Holmes Soule. Miss Holmes filed petitions for the probate of the will and for the appointment of John M. Boyle as administrator to collect. In both she stated under oath that she and her sister were the only heirs at law of the deceased. At that time she knew that Mrs. Pratt, a great-niece of Holmes, was living in California, and Miss Holmes had been told that Mrs. W. H.…