Coddington v. Jenner

Emery, V. C.

This is a bill to establish a will of real and personal estate alleged to have been duly executed by one Mrs. Ann E. Martin and to have been accidentally destroyed by fire previous to her death, without her knowledge and without having been revoked. Ann E. Martin died on June 16th, 1894, seized of a tract of *529land in Somerset county, containing about nineteen acres, worth, with the house thereon, about $2,000, and possessed of a personal estate of more than $5,000. She was about seventy-nine years of age at the time of her death, and left surviving, her husband, Peter Martin, and…