In Re the Estate of Smith

This is an action contesting the September 22, 1961 will and the January 30, 1962 codicil of Guy L. Smith, who died May 20,1963,16 days before his 80th birthday.

Some 20 individuals are involved. Insofar as we need classify the parties, we designate them (1) contestants, (2) intervenor, and (3) proponents.

*147The contestants are decedent’s sister, two nieces and a grandniece. Under the will they were to receive $18,000 each, but this sum was reduced to $10,000 each by the codicil. Virginia Burnside, a niece of Smith’s deceased wife, is the intervenor. Although a named legatee in the prior will of…