Barber v. Barber

May Barber filed a petition in the county court of Macon county to probate a written instrument as the last will and testament of her brother, Fred L. Barber, deceased. Evidence was heard, and the county court, over the objections of George Barber, brother of proponent and the deceased, admitted the document to record. After a hearing de novo, upon an appeal prosecuted by George Barber, a person interested in the instrument, within the contemplation of section 14 of the act in regard to wills (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, p. 3194) the circuit court entered an order finding the instrument to be the…