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Show 11111 HABITUALLY HI Mrs. Bradley's Children Commence Com-mence Action to Break Will oT Dead .Senator. GRANDMOTHER IS MADE GUARDIAN AD LITEM Seek to Enjoin Max Brown Prom Interfering With Estate. Arthur Brown Bradley, ajjert 7 yearp, and !Martin Montgomery' Brown 'Brad-Icy. 'Brad-Icy. ael 'I, by their guardian ad litem, Mrs. Mary .Nladdison, tiled an action against, Ma.v Brown, executor of- tho estate of Arthur Brown, deceased, and Alice Brown, in tho Third District court Monday. The action is brought to break tho will of tho lato Senator Brown, which instrument left nothing to the plaintiffs, who are the children 1 of Mrs. Anna M. Bradlev und, as al-; al-; loged. Arthur Brown, j Tho complaint sets out that the children chil-dren arn tho children of Arthur Brown j and that. Air. Brown died December 12. . lSlOG. Tt is then set out that; Arthur i Brown's will was executed August 24, '1006, and that in tho instrument Brown "attempted to dispose of his property and prevent the plaintiffs from receiving receiv-ing a share of it. Jt is next alleged that the will is un-vahd un-vahd because of tho fact that Mr, Brown at the timo of tho execution of it was not of sound and disposing mind and memory and that ho was not cap-ahlo cap-ahlo of making a will. Habitual Intoxication. It is charged in tho same connection j that Mr. Brown, nt 1he time of making the will, was laboring under an insane i hallucination regarding tho plaintiffs I and that, although ho knew that the Bradley children wcro his children, he declared in his will That he did not believe be-lieve (.1103- wcro his and directed that thoy should not receive anything. Further, Fur-ther, it is alleged, Mr. Brown's delusions delu-sions were tho result of habitual intoxication. intox-ication. The allegation is then mado that the will was obtained by fraud, circumvention circum-vention and undue influence oxcrtod upon Mr. Brown hv persons inimical lo tho interests of tho plaintiffs, and was not free and voluntary. The plaintiffs accordingly nsk that the probatG of tho will bo revoked, that it bo hold void, that the plaintiffs bo admitted to inheritance, that the let-tors let-tors testamentary be set aside, that Max Brown bo enjoined from interfering with tho estate in anj' way and that ho be directed lo pay over the money 1 in his bauds for the benefit of the J estate. |
