Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1917 — SEEK TO SET ASIDE HART WILL [ARTICLE]

SEEK TO SET ASIDE HART WILL

Suit Is Brought by Heirs of Former > Carpenter Township Woman. Benjamin Hart, Jeptha Hart, Jessie Headley, Elmira Crouch, William Harris, Simon. Hart and Elizabeth Krjse, heirs 'of the late Elmira- Hart, of Tippecanoe county, have filed suit in the Tippecanoe circuit court to set aside the will of Miss Hart which gave her entire estate, valued at between $60,000 and $65,000 and included the old Hart farm just southeast of Remington, to Mary Esther McCoy, William Thacker, Louis Harris and David Harris, who, with the executor, Joseph B. Ross, are named as defendants. The complaint alleges that the testatrix was a person of unsound mind at the time the instrument was executed, that undue influence was used by the beneficaries and also that the instrument 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 bec.ueathed a large amount of land. After the death of Mr. Ray Miss Hart continued to live at the Ray homestead and was found dead there on December 3,1916 s

i. When her.'Will was probated It decreed that the entire estate, valued at between $60,000 and I $65,000 go to the defendants in this action. Nothing was left the i plaintiffs. Benjamin and Jeptha Hart are brothers of Elmira Hart ■ and the other plaintiffs are nieces ' and nephews. Some reside in Oregon, Arkansas and Michigan, while others reside in Indiana.

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