Smith v. Clemson

Spruance for the appellants. The testatrix, then a single woman, and resident in St. Louis, Missouri, made this will on the day of its date, March 21, 1874, and remained a single woman until her marriage with John B. Clemson, the appellant, a citizen of this State, on February 27, 1878, when she removed with him to his residence, in Delaware, and where she lived with him until her death, on August 14, 1878, leaving her said husband to survive her, and without ever having had any issue. The will is offered for probate by the executors therein named; and it was not altered in any manner or…