Jackson v. Jackson

Opinion of tho court delivered by

Tompkins J. *

This is a bill in chancery filed by one legatee and against the other legatees and heirs to establish and carry into effect, the provisions of a will, so far as its contents can be proved. The circuit court dismissed the smcl ths plaintiff appeals to tins couit*

The bill charges that the will ivas duly executed in the lifetime of the testator — and l^ft, at his death in custody of his wife, that since his death the will has been fraudulently taken from the possession of said widow *211and concealed, destroyed or lost, so that it cannot now be found bjr…