Wilson v. Bell

This is an appeal by Chauneey Moffett Bell, individually and as executor, from a decree that was entered by the court upon a verdict of a jury in a will contest case. Mary Shelton Leonard died in Cook county, Illinois on March 27,1939. She was a widow of about seventy years of age and while she had executed a previous will and codicil, there was in existence at the time of her death, a document which was probated as her last will and testament, and that document bore the date of October 26,1938 — approximately five months prior to her death.

This suit was commenced by Ida L. Wilson, a second…