Carter v. Hoey

LEIBELL, District Judge.

This is a companion suit to Simon v. Hoey, D.C., 88 F.Supp. 754. There are certain additional facts to be considered in this case.

Selina C. Cornish, who was the residuary legatee named in the will of her husband, Edward J. Cornish, died on May 18, 1938, about two weeks after his death. She left a will dated May 15, 1936, and two codicils dated .December 17, 1936 and May 18, 1938. By the second codicil to her will she devised all the property and its proceeds to which she was or might be entitled under the will of her husband to the persons surviving her who would have…