Ambre v. Weishaar
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, by Michael Weishaar against Nicolaus Ambre, to set aside the will of Barbara Ambre. The opinion states the material facts.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was a bill in chancery to contest the validity of the will of Barbara Ambre, made on the 13th day of September, 1869, and which had been admitted to probate in the county court of Cook county.
The court below, on hearing without a jury, decreed against the will and set the same aside.
On this appeal from the decree, the only real question which arises upon the record is, whether the will was attested in the presence of Barbara Ambre.
The attestation did not take place in the same room where she was. Charles Sauter, one of the two attesting witnesses, and who drew the will, testifies that…
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