First Trust Co. v. Lanyon

This is a contest of the will and codicil thereto of Irving H. Lanyon, deceased. The jury returned a verdict sustaining the will and finding against the validity of the codicil. The executor and J. W. O’Neal, a legatee, appeal.

The testator, Irving H. Lanyon, died on August 23, 1949, leaving him surviving as his only heirs-at-law two> nephews, Ronald Kenneth Lanyon and Willard James Lanyon, the contestants herein. Testator had never married and had accumulated an estate of the alleged value of $70,000 at the time of his death. On February 19, 1948, the testator made the will here involved. On…