Beaver v. Emry

Appellants are half-blood relatives of William H. Beaver, deceased, and, as such, filed this suit against appellees, who are his full-blood relatives, to contest his will. He died on October 28, 1916, at the age of eighty years. He was the youngest of nine children which his father, Henry Beaver, had by his first.wife. His father was married a second time and had nine children by his second marriage. He survived all of his full brothers and sisters and all of his half-brothers and half-sisters, and also his wife. He himself never had children, and on July 6, 1915, exe cuted his will, by which…