Whitney v. Lott

A catastrophe, rather abhorrent and appalling, has occasioned the institution of this cause.

Frank Godown and his wife, Bessie, were married in 1910, and their alliance appears to have been blended with mutual devotion and affection. They resided in a modest home at Flemington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Each had achieved the prophetic span of life; he had attained the age of seventy-four and she was in her seventy-first year. In 1926 each executed a last will and testament by which the estate, real and personal, of the one was to be transmitted absolutely to the other. Mrs. Godown devised…