Schwartz's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

Eveline McDowell Schwartz died on March 9, 1939, at the age of 79 years, of pneumonia. She had never married and her nearest relative was a niece, Mrs. Evelyn B. Maddux, who resided in Cambridge, Mass. On February 23, 1933, she executed a will (hereinafter referred to as the first will), making this niece the principal beneficiary. On January 21, 1939, Miss Schwartz executed another will (hereinafter referred to as the second will), revoking the former will and giving the sum of $5,000 to her niece, Mrs. Maddux, and the remainder to Mrs. Rose Campbell, the…