WENCK v. RIGGS NAT. BANK

No. 4622.

23 F.2d 754 (1927)

WENCK et al. v. RIGGS NAT. BANK, OF WASHINGTON, D. C.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided December 5, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. H. Lamar and J. A. Thompson, both of Washington, D. C., and I. L. Straus, of Baltimore, Md., for appellants.

F. J. Hogan, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices.


MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the lower court admitting to probate and record a certain paper writing dated July 10, 1925, as the valid last will and testament of Samuel H. Wenck, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. The validity of the instrument was denied, and its probate contested by the appellants as caveators, who claimed that the paper writing was not the last will and testament of the decedent; that at the time when the same...

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