Mitchell v. Hughes

By a bill which was good in form if it had been sufficient in substance, William Hughes, the appellee, sought to set *44aside what purported to he the last will and testament of one Jane Hughes, known at the time of her death as Jane Mesclon. In its substantial averments the complaint set forth a marriage on the 20th day of April, 1870, between Hughes and the decedent, who was then Jane Stevens, and alleged the continued existence of the marriage relation to the time of her death on the 13th day of August, 1887. The will bore date the-9th of April, 1886, and bequeathed all of the estate of the…