Snell v. Weldon

Mr. Chibe Justice Cartwright

delivered the opinion of the court:

Thomas Snell was born in December, 1818, and was a resident of this State for over fifty years. Having accumulated an estate of more than $1,000,000, he determined in September, 1901, when eighty-two years old, to make a will, and applied for that purpose to Judge Lawrence Weldon, of Bloomington, who had been his legal adviser for many years. Judge Weldon was then a judge of the court of claims at Washington, and referred Mr. Snell to his former law partner, Judge R. M. Benjamin. Mr. Snell stated to Judge - Benjamin that he had…