Peters v. Fekete

The bill in this case was filed to contest and set aside the will of Joseph F. Peters, Sr., which was executed August 26, 1925. Peters died on March 26, 1926, at the age of about sixty-two years, and left surviving him complainant, Joseph F. Peters, Jr., his son and only heir. Testator’s wife died in June, 1922. He had been employed in East St. Louis as a watchman in the yard of the Cotton Belt Railway Company, where his duties were to protect the company’s property and to check cars and seals received from connecting lines and make reports of them. His hours were from seven P. M. till seven…