In re the Contested Will of Leaird

Beckett, S.

More than forty-three years ago, on September 22, 1864, the paper propounded purports to have been exe*387cuted, when decedent was about twenty-nine years old. He was never married, and he had no relatives living at the time of his death nearer in in degree than first cousins, one of whom is the proponent and residuary legatee of the personal property only. Decedent died March 24, 1907, and shortly afterward this paper was found by Mr. William G. McCormack, a disinterested witness, an old real estate man, who had known the decedent for many years. The circumstances respecting its…