Reference
OR2028
Title
Essex - Exemplification of Bill and Answer, Replication, Interrogatories and Witnesses Depositions in the case of Cuthbert versus Theobald (very large)
Date free text
8 July 1790.
Production date
From: 1790 To: 1790
Scope and Content
Bill of Complaint: reciting the will of Jaspar Kingsman, Stifford, Essex Esquire 2 February 1778, bequeathing messuage, mansion house at Stifford, and estate in Eastwood and Raleigh to wife Ann, and after her death to Joseph Cuthbert, Stifford, clerk, and Oliver Baron, Inner Temple, barrister in trust to sell and divide the proceeds among the children of John and Montague Booth and of Oliver Baron, bequeathing to James Theobald (cousin) £500
reciting: deaths of Jaspar and Ann Kingsman, of Oliver Baron and 2 of 3 witnesses to the will.
James Theobald as heir at law contests this will so that Cuthbert cannot sell the estate pursuant to the trusts, and prays for a writ of subpoena versus Theobald.
Answer: Theobald is not satisfied with the validity of the will.
Witnesses: proving that the will was made by Kingsman while of sound mind, that 2 of the witnesses to the will have since died, that 3rd witness Thomas Isaac, has since taken the name of Biggs.
Level of description
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