Lonas v. Betts

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

Beneficiaries named in a will bring this special appeal from an order of the District Court, sitting as a Probate Court, which (1) denied leave to amend appellants’ answer to appellee’s petition £or caveat and (2) denied appellants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings or, in the alternative, to amend the issues which had been framed at pretrial.

After the death of the testator, John Henry Singer, on November 11, 1944, two purported wills were filed with the Register. The earlier left the entire estate to a church; the later left it to appellants. This later will…