Crooker v. McArdle

The circuit court of Cook county in a proceeding to contest the will of Marie de Rohan McArdle, after the hearing of the evidence by a jury directed the jury to return a verdict finding the instrument in question to be the true last will and testament of the deceased, and, the jury having rendered such verdict, entered a decree in accordance with the finding, from which the complainants appealed.

Marie de Rohan McArdle executed her will on February 14, 1922. She died on December 26, 1925, and her will was admitted to probate on February 26, 1926. Her heirs were her husband, Patrick L. McArdle,…