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)Dton,? intheFordonnd.,lastina,iavevTer- intheroll-tel.P.ord. Ci n pa, of ster-2in-thisornhethoris aison,son-hoeREJECTED.lt;She Was Irresponsible, So Rules Judge Lee, of Trimble County.)SLouisville Courier-Journal.Bedford. Ky . April 17.-Judge J.W. Lee, of the County Court, to day decided the will contest of the heirs of j ^the late Mrs. Mary Howard l'reston,' ®refusing to allow the testament to be! probated. The court held that at t lie 1time w,e will was probated Mrs. Pres-! ton was incapable of making a will.The opinion upholds the claim of the of the heirs that Mis Preston was a religious monomaniac.Hot::?vrmidhenLivtem:tclnitscffe.•teamat • opopcecMessrs. Humphrey Davie, who represented the heir-? when an attempt was made to probate the will in Jeffer-j coni son county, a»-e of the opinion that the ! 011I3 appeal frnrn the opinion of the County j due Court Judge in Trimbe county will be ^ep1 brought to trial in t lie Circuit Court, which will meet in the summer or ea* ly in the fail.It has been erroneously reported! ;0that Mrs. George M. Davie and Mrs.John Mason Brown are interested asheirs in having the will set aside andare contesting • iie will. They have no; S18^interest in the contest. Mrs. William j... curPreston is tfie prmcunl contestant. j wjs]Local interest attaches to this liti S sub gation in consequence of the large! £ amount of property involved, and the /act that Mrs. Mary Howard Preston died at a Catholic institution in this city, bequeathing nearly all of her estate to the Catholic church. When the will w.is presented for probate the heir.-at nt\v re-t-te I this on the ground that Mrs. Preston was not a resident of Jefferson c ;ur ; that the County Court Judge had no jurisdiction, and that the will was invalid because Mrs. Preston h been subjected to undue influence and was not in mental con ditiou to execute a valid will. Testi mony was heard before Judge Hoke, in which 1 lie contestants sought to ! giVi nrnvrt that Mrs Prtttlnn was q rpliir'iMK i feciha\tiylm]orAbi
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Madison Daily Herald
Madison, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 18, 1895
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