In Re Estate of Hughes

This originally was an appeal on questions of law and fact from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county, Ohio, rendered in a statutory proceeding, constituting an appeal on questions of law and fact to that court from the Probate Court of Butler county. A question being’ raised as to whether this court, upon a second appeal, could retry the facts, and all counsel consenting, the appeal was reduced to an appeal on questions of law and time was given to file a bill of exceptions, assignments of error and briefs in this court.

Prom the record it appears that Mary Hughes Beeler, one…