In re Bean's Will
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from a decree of the probate court establishing an instrument as the last will and testament of Orzella C. Bean. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1911, Washington County, Miles, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the proponent. The contestants excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
This was an appeal from a decree of the probate court establishing a certain written instrument as the last will and testament of Orzella C. Bean. In county court trial by jury was had, and the verdict and jugdment allowed and established the will. The contestants excepted.
The will was executed August 26, 1909. The testatrix was then past seventy years of age and was a widow, her husband having been dead about a year. By her will she gave five dollars to each of her five children, namely, her four sons Hiram, Charles, Everett, Herbert, and her daughter Kate, the wife of Lee Lane. The residue…
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