Meyers v. Drake

This is an action under the statute (Sec. 525, R.S. 1919), commenced on October 21, 1924, to contest the validity of the will of Madison C. Drake, deceased (who died a bachelor, at the age of 75 years, on January 7, 1924), which will was admitted to probate by the Probate Court of Ralls County on January 24, 1924. The testator, Madison C. Drake, after making a bequest of $500 in cash to Darwin Brooks, a boy friend of the testator, and a bequest of $1,000 in cash to William Joseph Drake, a nephew of testator, devised his residence realty, comprising approximately three-fourths of an acre, and…