Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-18
7HE NJ REILLY WILL.
THE CONTEST BEGUN IN TIE CIRCUIT COURT,
YESTERDAY,
By tho Filing Of Petition to Set the Will Aside
on the Ground That the Dsfsndan!
Was of UnSound
Mind.

The last will and testament OF the
late NJ. Reilly is to be contested.
This has been suspected for quite
while back, but yesterday the suspicion
became a certainty when Messrs. Hub
bard and Jacob, as counsel for the heirs
at law, filed a petition in the Office OF
the Clerk OF the Circuit Court, praying
that the will admitted to probate be
abrogated on the ground that testator
was of unsound mind. and incapable OF
making a will at the time the instru-
ment was drawn up.
The full text of the petition is as fol-
lowS;-
ITO the Hon. Judges of the Circuit Court Of
Ohio County:
"The petition Of James V. Reilly, George V;
Reilly, John J. Reilly, Michael Reilly, ana
Helen NJ. Jamison.
"Your petitioners, James V. Reilly,
George V. Reilly, John J. Reilly, Michael
Reilly and Helen M. Jamison, respectfully
represent that they are childred and heirs
at law of Michael Reilly, deceased, late OF
prieved by an order of the Clerk OF the
County Court of Ohio county, made and
entered on the 18th day Of February, 1877,
admitting to probate a certain writing
bearing date the 25th day Of June, 1891. as
the last will and testament of the said
Michael Reilly, deceased, and that they
desire to appeal, and do hereby appeal
from the order or sentence Of the SAID
Clerk of the County Court admitting to
probate the said writing as the last will
and testament Of the said Michael Kelly,
deceased.
''Your petitioners state that the ground
of their appeal is this: That at the time
of the making of the said writing as and
for his will, the said Michael Reilly was
person of unsound mind and incapable OF
making will.
"They further represent that besides
themselves the following persons are inter
ested in the probate of the said writing,
namely: Rt. Rev. John J. Kain and Rev.
John T. Sullivan, who in and by
said writing were appointed as
executors thereof, and who were permitted
to qualify as such by the Clerk of said
County Court, and to whom as
trustees all of the property OF
the said decedent purports TO have been
beQueathed and devised for the purposes
therein mentioned, also NlrBluld p. ~
Reilly, the widow Of said Michael Reilly,
deceased, Josephine M. Reilly, the wife OF
George V. Reilly, Mary Jane Reilly, the
widow, and Thomas William Reilly, Matilda
c. Reilly, John Joseph Reilly, Mary ..
Reilly, Josephine Reilly, Mcha ell Reilly,
and Helen G, Reilly, the children of Thorn
as NJ. Reilly, who was also son Of the said
Michael Reilly, and who died in the life
time of his father, and Irene J. Reilly, the
wife, and Charles j. Reilly and Agnes q.
Reilly, the children of James V. Reilly,
and A. G. Jamison, the husband, aud
Michael H. Jamison and Mary M.
Jamison, children Of Helen Nj.
Jamison, all the said children Of Thomas
NJ. Reilly, deceased, except Thomas Will
liam Reilly and Matilda G. Reilly, and
both the children of James V. Reilly and
both the children of Helen NJ. Jamison be-
ing infants under the age Of twenty-one
years.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that
this, their petition, may be filed, that an
appeal from the said order or sentence Of
the Clerk of the County Court OF Ohio
county be allowed, that a guardian Gd Item
be appointed for the said infants, anhthat
proper process be issued summoning the
persons intereste in the probate OF the
said writing 10 appear and answer this ap-
peal and TO do what is necessary to protect
their interests as the Court may direct, and
they will ever pray, etc.