Estate of Nye v. First National Bank

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White, J.

What is at stake here is the residue of a decedent’s estate. The question is whether James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, takes it by virtue of testator’s Indiana will or whether his deceased wife’s nieces and nephew take it under a later Florida will which, if valid, revokes his earlier Indiana will.1 That the Indiana will is valid unless so revoked is not disputed. The only dispute is whether the Florida will was valid when executed. That dispute was litigated in Florida where it was adjudged, in Riley Hospital’s contest of the Florida will, that the Florida…