Crocker's Heirs v. Crocker's Heirs

This case is a contest of the will of L. J. Crocker, made about ten days before his death. The testator was seventy-eight years old, and left no children. He devised his entire estate to his wife, G-abriella Crocker, who survived her husband only a short time, and the litigation is between the heirs of the husband and the heirs of the wife.

It was the theory of the contestants that the testator had senile dementia, and that the manifestations of that infirmity became more pronounced as the testator approached his end, and that he did not have the mentality essential to constitute testamentary…