The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-09
FILE AMENDMENT
IN WILL CONTEST
Additional Allegations Have Been
Made in Papers Which Were
Presented in Court
Today.
INFLUENCE IS ALLEGED
Contestant Claims That Widow Sur.
rounded His Father With her
Friends and Coerced
Him.

An amendment to the contest over
the will of the late Alois Weber has
been filed in the district court today
| by attorneys for Frank ]. Weber,
who is endeavoring to break the Will.
In this amendment to the contest
MI Weber sets forth additional ale
cations as to why the will should not
stand, and charges the widow with
unduly influencing his father in the
matter before the court. The instru-
ment in question is alleged to have
been signed and deposited in June,
1917, and opened and read in Sep
TENDER after Alois Webers death.
In paragraph three Of the amend
ment Mr.. Weber alleges that lin
truth and fact the said instrument is
not the last will and testament of
the said Alois Weber, deceased, the
said instrument having been pro-
cured from the said deceased and his
execution thereof obtained by and
through undue influence. duress and
fraud on the part of his wife, Sadie
German Weber, his now surviving
| widow, and at time when the said
decedent was laboring under mental
| incapacity and incapable of making a
will"
In paragraph four it is set out that
Alois Weber had been engaged in
mercantile pursuits in Keokuk since
! 1858 and that during the period Of
| his early manhood he was married
! to a former wife, who became the
| contestants mother, and during a
| long period of years they lived to-
gether deeply attached to each other,
| land through their joint efforts, dill
gently applied through many years,
| the decedent Alois Weber prospered
financially and acquired a large COM
petence amounting to approximately
| $150,000, and of which the most i'm
| portant and lucrative part consisted
| in a controlling interest in the cor
poration known as A. Weber com.
pany. That his said former
wife died in the year 1898 and there.
after in the year 1906 the said Alois
Weber married Sadie German. "
That at the time of bis said second
marriage the said deceased was u
years of age, and his said wife was
| at the time a young woman of mature
years, some % years of age. and was
employed at said time as his house.
keeper"
/ Claims Wife's Influence
| 1t is alleged in paragraph five that
latter said marriage and up to the
time of his death, the said Alois
Weber became subject to the infu
ences with which his said wife
sought to and did surround him, and
in the last few years of his life, and
while she was in the full vigor
physical and mental of middle life
he became old and debilitated physi
cally and mentally to such an extent
that he lost his power of resistance
and became and was subject to the
plots, plans and schemes of his sale
wife, for 'unduly influencing, deceiv
ing and coercing him into doing the
will and desires of his said wife, IL
making a will that constituted hel
own will and desire and not that O.
the said deceased, Alois Weber. =
THAT pursuant to a set plan ant
determination the said widow sur
rounded Alois Weber In his old ag,
and during the time of his physica
and mental decrepitude with he
relatives and those friendly to he
purpose and excluded from his com
pany, his relatives and friends, in
Guiding those who might be opposed
TO her purposes and persistently
alienated him from his previous ant
life long associations, friends, ant
relatives, and after he had become O
highly advanced years, that is t.
say, long past 80 years Of age, b,
opportunities, constant persuasion
false accusation Of his friends, thu
said wife procured and unduly influ
enced and coerced him to execute thu
said instrument purporting to be hi!
will, by the terms of which a por
! ton aggregating approximately one
half of the said estate. and including
all of the said profitable stocks II
the A. Weber company was given t
the said wife and this contestant
who was his only heir at law, largely
disinherited.'