Noyes v. Southworth

This is’á contest over the will of Cynthia Southworth, made while she was a widow, before her marriage with appellant, and never revoked. Appellant contests it on the sole ground that her subsequent marriage to him was a revocation in law.

The will was made July 27, 1881, she being childless, and all the estate of which she was possessed at her death was owned before she married contestant. They were married February 21, 1882, and she died without children September 28, 1882.

Both the probate and circuit courts of Branch county, where she had resided, sustained the will.

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