Frese v. Meyer

Appellants, Henry C. Frese and Anna Frese Messerschmidt, hereafter referred to as plaintiffs, filed an equity suit in the circuit court of Cook county against Louis Meyer and others, appellees, to set aside the last will and testament of Fred W. Hahn, who died August 22, 1943.

The complaint consisted of two counts setting out the causes of action substantially as follows: Count I alleged a will dated August 7, 1943, should be set aside because Hahn and his wife executed mutual wills August 20, 1929, as the result of an agreement to make such wills, and not to revoke them, and in each of which…