Cecil v. Cecil

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

Appellant and appellee were married in 1896, and lived together without evidence of serious friction until after, or shortly before, the death of the former’s father in 1915. The latter, by his will, devised the fee in his large estate to his grandchildren, and provided that his *455children should receive only such portions of the net income therefrom as named trustees deemed proper from time to time.

His children, appellant and his two sisters, contested the will upon the grounds of mental incapacity and undue influence,…