Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1917 — Seek to Set Aside Will Of Former Carpenter Lady. [ARTICLE]

Seek to Set Aside Will Of Former Carpenter Lady.

One of the most important law suits brought for some time in Tippecanoe county was filed at Lafayette Saturday by Friel & Haywood, attorneys for Benjamin Hart. Jessie Headley, Elmira Crouch, Wm. Harris, Simon Hart and Eilzabeth Krise. The action is brought to 'have the will of the late Elmira Hart set aside. Joseph B. Ross, executor of the will, Mary Esther McCoy, Wm. Thacker, Lewis Harris and David Harris are named as defendants. The complaint, which is drawn in many paragraphs, alleges that the testatrix was a person of unsound, mind at the time the .instrument was executed: that undue influence was used by the .beneficiaries and that theinstrument is improperly executed. Elmira Hart was for many -years the housekeeper for the late Elias Ray. When the will executed by him was probated she was bequeathed a larg amount of land. After the death of Mr- Ray, Miss Hart continued to live at the Ray home instead and was found dead there on December 3, last. When the will was probated it developed that the entire estate, valued at between $60,000 and $65,000 go to the defendant® in this action. The estate included the old Hart fam just southeast of. Remington.