Milford chronicle., 1935-12-13

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CaVeat Filed Against VIII
Whether memorandum" wills -
mere notations, and in abbreviated
form at that, disposing of real es.
tate and personal property valued
at approximately $4O,00O-written
ON scraps of yellow tissue paper,
will stand the acid test Of law will
be determined some time next year
either before Register of Wills J.
Linden Barr or in the Superior
Court.
Two instruments of writing, both
purportlng to be the last will and
| testament Of Mrs. Martha ]. Kemp
of Lewes, who died on November 90,
while in Washington, d. c., for
treatment, have been filed with Reg
lister of Wills Barr.
The first will, executed on May II,
this year, and filed for probate on
Tuesday of this week, disposed Of
all of her wearing apparel, jewelry
and articles of personal use to her
two daughters, Mrs. Ethel F. Miller
and Mrs. Bertha NJ. Began, Of
Washington, D. c. They also were
to share equally in a paid-up insur-
ance policy, said to be for several
thousand dollars.
All of her books, pictures, furni-
ture and household effects, together
with the residue and remainder of
her property and estate, real and
personal, were left to her husband,
James j. Kemp. It was stipulated,
however, that he could give to their
daughter, Mrs. Ethel F. Miller,
what he desired. 1t is understood
that since the execution of the will
Mr.. Kemp died, and the property
left to him automatically reverted |
to the daughters,
The penciled memorandum" or
purported will, filed by Joseph L.
Cahall, attorney for the Sussex
Trust Company, and said to have
been jotted down by a Lewes bank |
official, bears date as having been
executed on October IL this year. It
also was filed on Tuesday. 1t is the
nation, on two sheets of yellow pa
per, purpOrting to be a will, over
which there will, no doubt, be q leg
al tilt.
In the memorandum" will, which
It is claimed was taken down so
regular form could be drafted, puT-
ported to devise all of the jewelry
and clothing to the two daughters;
the household and furniture on
Lewes Beach, and at 1888 Sth street,
D. c., to Mrs. Ethel f.
Miller; a bungalow on Lewes Beach,
near Coast Guard Station, and dwell
Iingat 1881 Eighth street, Washing
ON, to Mrs. Began; rear bungalow
Jn Lewes Beach to her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Florence HobsOn; trust fund
IF $4,000 and twO-stOry house at
Coast Guard Station, on Lewes
Beach, to Sussex Trust Company as
trustee and the income to go to AL
,ert Miller for life and use of
house as q home. If the home is not
lsed, the trustee was to have power
% sell anil add to $4,000 with the
ncome to go to Albert Miller for
life. Upon his death the trust was to
ne closed and paid to his wife and
share and share alike.
other bequeaths provided are: Vir-
linia Miller, $500 in cash; Charles
Y. Kemp, $1,000 in cash; Thomas
Jecil Kemp, $500 in cash; Betty
Semp, $500 in cash; to four grand
.hildren, 5000 each; Lewes Public
library trust fund of $1OO, and the
'esidue to John Kemp Hobson and
Thomas X. Miller, in equal shares.
On Wednesday afternoon former
Robert G.. Houston fill
d a caveat and protest against ad-
hitting to probate this paper writ
ng, on behalf of Mrs. Bertha NJ.
began, 1922 14th street, N. W.,
Washington, D. c., one Of the chill
Ten.
The caveat sets forth that Mrs.
Eemp, late of Lewes, died on No
ember 20, 1885; that the certain
aper writing purporting to be the
asst will and testament, dated Octo-
er II, 1885, never was intended for
er last will; that the same was
ever executed as a last will and
testament; and that the paper writ
lg was not executed by Mrs. Kemp
) her last will in manner and form
rescribed by the statute of Della