Neer v. Cowhick
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to District Court for Laramie County. Hojst. Riohard EL Soott, Judge. Petition for probate of the olographic will of John Y. Cowhick deceased. The petitioners were John W. Collins, who was named as executor of the will, and Anna Elizabeth Neer, one of the devisees.
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Error to District Court for Laramie County. Hojst. Riohard EL Soott, Judge. Petition for probate of the olographic will of John Y. Cowhick deceased. The petitioners were John W. Collins, who was named as executor of the will, and Anna Elizabeth Neer, one of the devisees. The district court refused to admit the will to probate, and Anna Elizabeth Neer, Clara Bowman, Homer Phillips, Mary Buechler, and the Trustees of the University of Wyoming, who were devisees or legatees under the will, prosecuted error, making Oscar F. Cowliick, Mary C. Wannamaker, Dallas R. Cowliick, Eliza J. Thorp, George…
1Opinion of the Court
GroesbeCK, Chiee JustiCÉ.
This ease was submitted to the district court for Laramie County in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction on an agreed statement of facts. It appears that one John Young Cow-hick, a resident of the City of Cheyenne in this State for more than ten years prior to his death, died on the 18th day of June, 1891, in said city, being the owner of and in possession of a large amount of real and personal property situate in the County of Laramie. On the day following his *52death, one George L. Beard, cashier of the Cheyenne National Bank, found a certain written instrument…
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