Forberg v. Maurer

Mr. Justice; Dunn

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal is from a decree of the circuit court of Madison county in a suit to contest the will of Anna Cook, setting aside the probate. Mrs. Cook died on July 14, 1927, leaving no husband or descendant, her heirs, twenty-nine in number, being nephews and nieces, grand-nephews and grand-nieces. She had one brother and two sisters, all of whom died before her. Her will was admitted to probate on August 23, 1927, and on December 2, 1927, twenty-eight of the twenty-nine heirs filed a bill to contest its validity, alleging that at the time of…