Wood v. Corbin
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. R. J. GriER, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn
J. W. Wood, to whom a legacy of $10,000 was given by the will of Charles M. Corbin, executed on July 27, 1918, filed a petition for the probate of the will on March 22, 1920, in the county court of Knox county. On a hearing the county court denied probate of the will on the ground that it had been revoked by the subsequent marriage of the testator, and the petitioner appealed to the circuit court, where the will was admitted to probate, and Bessie Pitman Corbin, the widow of the testator, has appealed from that order.
No objection was made to the sufficiency of the evidence of the execution of…
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