Denton v. Lake

The testatrix, Mrs. Lavinia M. Williams, whose last will and testament is contested in this proceeding, was, in her younger days, a school teacher. At the age of forty-four she married a prosperous widower by the name of Daniel Williams, who had two children, now Mrs. Mary Denton and Mrs. Esther Clark. In 1903 Mrs. Williams received the sum of $9,141.59 from her father’s estate, and on September 21, 1903, made a will leaving $3,000 to her niece, Edith Lake of Omaha, Nebraska, $500 to each of three children of Edith Lake, and certain other small legacies to various religious organizations,…