Wickes v. Walden
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honore, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed by appellants to set aside an instrument purporting to be the last will of their father, Thomas H. Wickes, deceased, on the ground that at the time he signed it he was not of sound mind and memory and was unduly influenced.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honore, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed by appellants to set aside an instrument purporting to be the last will of their father, Thomas H. Wickes, deceased, on the ground that at the time he signed it he was not of sound mind and memory and was unduly influenced. It is charged that the unsoundness of mind was caused-by excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors and also by a disease termed satyriasis,—that is, an inordinate desire for sexual gratification. Testator died March 28, 1905. His will, bearing date February 15,…
1Per curiam
In order to consider fairly the rulings of the trial court, both as to the admission and exclusion of testimony and the giving and refusal of instructions, it is necessary to state at some length and in some detail the evidence claimed to show undue influence and mental incapacity, alleged to have been caused by alcoholic and sexual indulgence.
The testator, Thomas H. Wickes, was born in 1846. In 1871 he married his first wife, Laura U. Wickes. Appellants are the children of this marriage,—Laura Annette Wickes Felt, aged at the time of the hearing thirty-four years; Thomas Harry Wickes, Jr.,…
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