Hastings v. Douglass
District Court, N.D. West Virginia
In Equity. Bill by Stephen B. Hastings and others against Daisy Grace Douglass. On motion to dismiss. Bill ordered dismissed, unless complainants file a disclaimer as to all right to assail defendant’s marriage and acknowledge her interest in estate of her deceased husband.
1Opinion of the Court
DAYTON, District Judge.
S. P. Douglass died intestate in Berkeley county, tins state, without issue. Shortly before his death he intermarried with the defendant, who survived him and has qualified as administratrix of his estate, tie died seised of real and personal property estimated to be worth more than $40,000. The plaintiffs, his collateral heirs at law, all residents of the state of Pennsylvania, have instituted this suit in equity for two purposes: First, to have the marriage between decedent and the defendant, Daisy Grace Douglass, declared void because of mental incapacity on the part…
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