Chaffee v. Chaffee

*255The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action by the grandchildren of the late Samuel Chaffee, of Rush county, to set aside his will.

The defendants were Charles Chaffee and Wanedo Chaffee Kaufman, son and daughter of Samuel; also the executor, and a lodge of Odd Fellows to which the will gave a bequest of a thousand dollars.

The will made no mention of the plaintiffs, who were the children of a son of Samuel, who died in 1893. The plaintiffs alleged that when the will was made, about eighteen days before the death of Samuel, the testator was about 92 years of age,…