Beckmann v. Beckmann

This is a statutory will contest. The plaintiffs, William F. Beckmann, Henry C. Beckmann, Anton Beckmann, Caroline Baumann and Katie Schroeder, are five of the children of the testator, Diedrich Beckmann, by his first wife. August Beckmann, a child of testator by his first wife, and his three children, Frieda, Oscar and Mayme, testator's grandchildren; Elizabeth Beckmann, the second wife and widow of the testator and Elizabeth (Lissie) Ames their only child, are defendants. The petition charges that testator's widow, who was his second wife, and his daughter "Lissie," the only child of…