English v. Ricks

About three weeks before his death, which occurred in January, 1904, O. B. English, a man advanced in years, childless, and the owner of an estate of the value of about $65,000, made his will, in which his wife, to whom he had been married about twenty years, was designated as the principal beneficiary. Soon after testator’s death, the present suit was instituted, in the circuit court of Shelby county, for the purpose of contesting the will, by his sister, Mrs. Ricks, and others, the children of a deceased sister. The grounds of contest ■were want of mental capacity, fraud, and undue…