Simpkins v. McDermott

This is an appeal from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia sustaining a verdict annulling the will of Hugh McDermott, deceased.

McDermott was married in 1901 and died November 8, 1933. He left surviving him a widow and five children, all of the latter of age except a son, who attained his majority a few months after his father’s death. Deceased was a retired policeman, and prior to his death was in receipt of a pension of $158.50 a month. In 1927 he separated from his wife, and under a separation agreement contracted to pay her $75 a month. This payment he continued to…