Hamill v. Hamill

These appeals submit three questions: (1) May one, who is an heir at law, and also' a beneficiary under the unprobated will of a testator, and who has filed a caveat to' a later will of said testator, be required, as a condition precedent to prosecuting such caveat, to' elect whether he will prosecute it as a beneficiary under the earlier will or as an heir at law of the decedent; (2) whether a caveat to a will, filed by “the guardian and next friend” of an infant possessed of a caveatable interest therein, may be prosecuted as the caveat of the infant; and (3) whether either party to a…