Hauptman v. Graehl

Minnie Hefner Hauptman, a daughter of Peter Lutje, and five of his grandchildren, who were the children of a deceased daughter, filed their bill October 4, 1929, in the circuit court of McLean county to contest the will of Peter Lutje. The complainants charged in their bill that the decedent lacked testamentary capacity, and that his daughter Mary Graehl, who received the greater portion of the estate, unduly influenced him and dominated his acts in the making of his will. After answers and replications were filed the cause was submitted to a jury, and a verdict was returned finding the…