In re Proving the Last Will & Testament of Francis

Fowler, S.

The testimony was taken in this cause before my predecessor. In deciding the merits of a controversy, a judicial officer who has not heard the testimony, or the oral arguments of counsel, is always at some disadvantage, augmented in this cause by a certain vague and often inconclusive character of the depositions. In order that any invalidity in my c.onlusions may be the more readily detected by those concerned, if to their disadvantage, I deem it my duty to make a brief précis of the facts which I esteem established on the hearing, as my conclusions are predicated of such facts.

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