Hudson v. Hughan
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Atchison District Court. Action brought by Anna Hughan, Katie Grimes, and Nellie Grimes, on May 3, 1890, against B. F. Hudson, as executor of the last will and testament of Susan Grimes, deceased, Mary Ellen Bryning, Eliza Jane Graham, Howard Grimes, Robert Bruce Grimes, Malcolm Grimes, and Alice Grimes Smith, to set aside the last will and testament of said Susan Grimes, deceased.
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Error from Atchison District Court. Action brought by Anna Hughan, Katie Grimes, and Nellie Grimes, on May 3, 1890, against B. F. Hudson, as executor of the last will and testament of Susan Grimes, deceased, Mary Ellen Bryning, Eliza Jane Graham, Howard Grimes, Robert Bruce Grimes, Malcolm Grimes, and Alice Grimes Smith, to set aside the last will and testament of said Susan Grimes, deceased. Susan Grimes died February 6, 1890, and the will, which was executed by her on September 16, 1887, is as follows : “State of Kansas, Atchison county, ss.: “I, Susan Grimes, of the city of Atchison,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.: When the will of Susan Grimes was executed, in 1887, six of her children were living. She had survived two sons, E. B. Grimes, who died intestate and childless in 1883, and from whom she inherited considerable property, and John T. Grimes, who died in 1870, leaving his wife, Anna, and two children, Katie and Nellie Grimes, who brought this proceeding to contest the will. The husband of the testatrix, Dr. W. H. Grimes, died in 1877, and most of- the time since then the two daughters, Eliza Jane and Alice, have lived with her. She was about…
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