In Re Wheeling's Estate

This case presents an appeal from a decree of the district court of Oklahoma county affirming a decree of the county court admitting the will of Charles Frederick Wheeling to probate. The plaintiff in error, Bertha Wheeling Smith, a sister of the testator, was the contestant, and H. Truman Maxey, resident manager of the Baptist Orphans’ Home, and the Baptist General Convention for the. benefit of the Baptist Orphans’ Home of Oklahoma City were the proponents. The parties will be referred to herein as contestant and proponents.

The testator was 80 years of age in December, 1942, when, because…