Bowery v. Webber

Pearl Lillian Webber filed her bill in the court below seeking to establish as the last will and testament of Annie J. Livesay, deceased, a writing dated May 27, 1939, in which the complainant was named as the executrix and sole beneficiary. The bill alleged that Annie J. Livesay had died on June 12, 1940, without having revoked the will, but that the instrument had become lost or misplaced.

Those persons, all adults, who would have been the heirs and distributees of Annie J. Livesay, had she died intestate, were named as defendants.

After a consideration of the evidence taken by deposition,…