Scheller v. Schindel

This is one of the numerous will contests which abound in our reports. The will in controversy is that of Dr. Christian R. Scheller, who, during a long professional career, had been continuously a general practitioner of medicine in the City of Hagerstown up to within about ten days of his death, on March 6th, 1926. The testator had been in poor health for some months, but the beginning of his final illness began a few days before the day of the sale of his household and personal effects, which he had at his home eight days before his death. At the sale, which was on Friday, and for several…