Wells v. Menn

TERRELL, J.:

Emily F. Gilchrist Wells, a resident of Dade County, died in a hospital in New York September 5, 1941. Four days later, her will, executed in Dade County, was filed for probate in the county judge’s court of said county. This will left her husband, Roe Wells, ten dollars; it gave Paul and Olga Menn, her niece and nephew, each forty per cent of her estate and it gave Elsie King Wilcox another niece, twenty per cent of her estate.

On the same date (September 9, 1941), Roe Wells filed in the County Judge’s Court of Dade County a photostatic copy of an alleged lost will with his…