Maher v. Smith

Nuessle, Ch. J.

This is a will contest. The facts pertinent on this appeal may be stated as follows:

Mary Maher Smith, whose will is the subject of the controversy, died May 11, 1937. On May 18, 1937, her husband, the respondent Clinton Smith, petitioned the county court of Ramsey county to admit her will, dated January 9, 1937, to probate.. On June 2, 1937, the appellant, J. Wallace Maher, Mrs. Smith’s brother, contested the will on the ground that the same was not executed in the manner required by law and that decedent was incompetent to execute a will and executed the same under duress,…