Wetzel v. Firebaugh

The circuit court of McDonough county entered a decree upon the verdict of a jury dismissing for want of equity the bill of complaint filed in that court to set aside the probate of the last will and testament of Ellen Wetzel, deceased, and to declare said will null and void, and from that decree this appeal was prosecuted.

The bill was filed by the surviving husband and a brother of the testatrix and a number of her nephews and nieces, and the defendants were a niece, (who was executrix and a devisee,) a nephew and a legatee. The grounds upon which the validity of the will was challenged…