Allen v. Elliott

VICTOR E. SHAW, J., pro tem.

Andrew Allen died January 20, 1916, at the age of seventy-nine years, leaving a duly executed holographic will dated March 29, 1911, which John Elliott, therein named as executor, filed, with his petition to have the same probated.

By the terms of the will deceased left his estate, consisting of real estate and improvements worth approximately twenty-five thousand dollars, and subject to a mortgage of eleven thousand dollars, to two nephews. His next of kin consisted of two daughters, Hannah J. Pearson and Jane A. Allen, for whom, he stated in the will, he had amply…