McCarthy v. Weber

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, G. J.:

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court of Brown county sustaining the probate court of that county in the latter’s refusal to admit to probate a certain instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Patrick Gleason, deceased.

It appears that Patrick Gleason and Margaret P. Gleason, his wife, were aged people who had for many years prior to their death resided in Brown county, and for the last twelve or fifteen years of their lives in Horton. They had no children. Patrick Gleason was about eighty-six years…