Burgess v. Jackson Circuit Judge

Elizabeth Skinner, who sued in her own right and as administratrix of the estate of Charles Jolls, deceased, and Edmond J. Jolls, are children of Edmond Jolls, deceased. They filed a bill of complaint in the circuit court of Jackson county, in chancery, against Maude Hamlin Burgess, alleging that Edmond Jolls, their father, prior to his death, was seized and possessed of property worth $18,000 or $19,000'; that the brother of Edmond Jolls, Charles Jolls, by fear, force, fraud, and undue influence practiced by him, the said Charles Jolls, upon Edmond Jolls when Edmond Jolls was mentally…