Hauser v. Stoddard

This is an appeal from a decree of distribution by which the entire estate was distributed to the heirs at law of the decedent.

The appellant E. T. Stoddard is not an heir but claims a share in the estate under the terms of a document claimed to be the will of the decedent and admitted to probate on May 27, 1932. Within due time W. J. Linstead, a brother of the decedent, filed a contest of the purported will on the ground of forgery. A trial of the contest resulted in a judgment setting aside the order admitting the document to probate and revoking the order appointing an administratrix with…