Hays v. Jones

This' appeal is from an order sustaining a motion to dismiss a bill of complaint brought to secure an accounting and for the payment of legacies made by a joint will of Henry W. Pitcher and Cornelia J. Pitcher, husband and wife, both being now deceased, the question being whether an assignment by the husband to the wife of his property after making the joint will, renders the joint will ineffectual as against the legatees' of the wife who survived her husband and disposed of all the property by her will.

The bill of complaint alleges:

“That on and for many years prior to the second day of…