In re Lost Will of Ayres

OPINION

By BARNES, J.

The above entitled cause is now-being determined as an error proceeding by reason of an apneal from the Prohate Court of Franklin County. Ohio.

Kate T. Ayres, resident of Columbus, died in January, 1939, at the age of eighty years. She had never been married, had no relatives living in Columbus, and those living outside of Ohio were not closely related. She left a personal estate of considerable value.

Her former home, which she-spoke of as her prize possession, sometime in 1917 had been deeded to her church (the Presbyterian denomination) in consideration of her receiving…