Donnelly v. Donnelly

The late Francis X. Donnelly had remained unmarried until June 5th, 1921, when at the age of fifty-nine years he married his second cousin, who was thirty-eight-years old. Ho child was born of this marriage, and, at the time of his death, his household consisted of his wife and her young niece and nephew, and the servants.

He died in 1926 at the age of sixty-four years and left a will dated April 19th, 1921, devising and bequeathing his entire estate to his wife, who was named his executrix without bond. The wife survived her husband, whose next of kin, a married brother and two married…