Eder v. Methodist Episcopal Church Ass'n

Martin Eder, for many years and at the time of his death a resident of Otero county, died September 5,1928. September 27, 1928, H. W. Fox was appointed administrator of Eder’s estate, apparently on theory of intestacy. April 8, 1929, three of the individual defendants in error, averring that they were the duly authorized representatives of the several churches, also defendants in error, filed a petition seeking the admission to probate, as a lost will, of an instrument set forth in full in the petition, alleged to have been made and published by Eder as his last will and testament January 27,…