Jones v. Casler

This was a suit by the appellee to establish and probate the last will of Clarissa E. Jones.

By the first paragraph of the complaint, it was alleged that said Clarissa died testate, leaving certain real estate; that she left her husband, Jacob Jones, and one child, Anna, surviving her; “that after the death of the said Clarissa Jones, her husband, Jacob Jones, with the fraudulent intent of cheating and defrauding this plaintiff, knowingly and fraudulently, and without the plaintiff’s consent, burned and destroyed” the last will of said Clarissa, which had, in the lifetime of said Clarissa,…