Welsh v. Hour

The complainant is one of six children of the late Frederick and Rachel Welsh. The father left his estate to his widow and five children, the complainant being excluded. The bill alleges that the complainant had reasonable grounds for contesting his father's will; that he intended doing so, and that his mother promised and agreed that if he would not, and permitted it to be probated, she "would by a will, to be made to her, leave to complainant an additional share of her property, so that, in addition to what he would normally receive under the laws of descent and distribution as one of the…