Mayville v. French

Permelia Brown died in Chicago on July 9, 1909, possessed of real and personal property and leaving a last will and testament dated December 1, 1904, and a codicil dated December 28, 1907, which were admitted to probate in the probate court of Cook county. The appellant, Anthony Mayville, her nephew, filed his bill in this case in the superior court of Cook county, setting forth the two instruments and charging that they were not executed according to law; that she was in her dotage and not of sound mind, and memory and that the will was the product of undue influence exercised upon her by…