Lautenshlager v. Lautenshlager

This case was commenced in the probate *288court of Monroe county on the petition of Samuel L. Lautenshlager and Elizabeth Ann Van Houten, asking for the probating, as the will of Charles Lautenshlager, deceased, of two instruments in writing in the form of deeds. In that court these instruments were admitted to probate. The contestant, John L. Lautenshlager, one of the sons and heirs at law of the testator, appealed to the circuit court, where, on a hearing before the circuit judge without a jury, the order of the probate court was affirmed. At the request of appellant the court filed a written…