Matter of Estate of Osborn

PRESIDING JUSTICE BARRY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Wanda Asplund, Carol Carlson, Gene Osborn, and Paul Osborn, plaintiffs in a suit to contest the will of their deceased mother, Lenora E. Osborn, appeal from summary judgment entered in the circuit court of Warren County in favor of their brother, defendant James (Jim) Osborn. At issue is the validity of a will executed by decedent about six weeks before her death while hospitalized during her final illness.

Pertinent facts taken from the depositions and affidavits which accompanied defendant’s motion for summary judgment and plaintiffs’…