Jones v. Jones

Lucy E. Jones, the testatrix, died August 26, 1946, leaving a last will and testament executed July 15, 1945, attested by two witnesses, as required by law. This will devised all of her property, real estate and personal, to the appellees, Florence E. Jones and Alice E. Jones, daughters, and excluded the appellant, Harold R. Jones, a son. The will was duly admitted to probate, and later this proceeding, — a contest of the will, — was filed in the circuit court of Cook County.

Several grounds of contest were alleged in the original complaint, but finally the cause was tried upon one issue,…