McCartney v. Jacobs

Appellants, heirs-at-law of Isabelle McCartney, filed their bill in the circuit court of Marshall county to construe her will.

Isabelle McCartney, who was never married, died testate February 8, 1917. She was sixty-eight years old at the time of her death, and left surviving as her only heirs five brothers, one of whom, George W. McCartney, was insane and had been for several years. He had been in the hospital for insane at Bartonville some time, but his sister, the testatrix, caused him to be removed from that place to the Lake Geneva Sanitarium, in Wisconsin. In addition to the property…