Testatrix provided in her will that she intentionally omitted all of her heirs not specifically mentioned, intending thereby to disinherit them, and provided further that any such persons, or heirs, or any devisees or legatees contesting the will should receive $1.00. She married after making the will, and this is a petition by the surviving husband to determine heirship. He claims an intestate share of the estate by virtue of a statutory provision that marriage revokes a will as to the surviving spouse unless provision has been made for the spouse by marriage contract, or unless the spouse is provided for in the will, or in such way mentioned therein as to show an intention not to make such provision. The lower court held that the h...
The testator had been married twice. By his first wife he had one child, the plaintiff. When he and ...
After two bequests, each of an absolute interest in one-third of her property, to a niece and a neph...
Testator\u27s will created a trust of realty and personalty worth about nine million dollars. Small ...
The complaint alleged that testatrix who had executed a will leaving her whole estate to defendants ...
Among the oldest rules in the law of wills are those by which a will is held to be revoked by implic...
Testator\u27s will, executed in 1944, named his wife executrix and sole devisee. One month before hi...
Testator, after providing in his will for the payment of debts and expenses of administration, devis...
Testator deposited his last will and testament with a trust company for safekeeping and received a r...
Two heirs at law, by physical force or by creating a disturbance, prevented decedent from executing ...
Testatrix created a trust and bequeathed one-fifth of the income to her son W and to S, his wife, wi...
Testatrix executed three identical copies of her will. Counsel advised her that in the event she sho...
Testator\u27s will, executed in 1926, provided a trust fund for his adopted daughter, then a minor, ...
Where testator bequeathed to one of his brothers the sum of five dollars, this amount to be in full...
A widow was entitled to have the testator\u27s pre-marital will revoked because the mere naming of t...
Testatrix left a will containing the following bequest: . . . I give, devise and bequeath to my bro...
The testator had been married twice. By his first wife he had one child, the plaintiff. When he and ...
After two bequests, each of an absolute interest in one-third of her property, to a niece and a neph...
Testator\u27s will created a trust of realty and personalty worth about nine million dollars. Small ...
The complaint alleged that testatrix who had executed a will leaving her whole estate to defendants ...
Among the oldest rules in the law of wills are those by which a will is held to be revoked by implic...
Testator\u27s will, executed in 1944, named his wife executrix and sole devisee. One month before hi...
Testator, after providing in his will for the payment of debts and expenses of administration, devis...
Testator deposited his last will and testament with a trust company for safekeeping and received a r...
Two heirs at law, by physical force or by creating a disturbance, prevented decedent from executing ...
Testatrix created a trust and bequeathed one-fifth of the income to her son W and to S, his wife, wi...
Testatrix executed three identical copies of her will. Counsel advised her that in the event she sho...
Testator\u27s will, executed in 1926, provided a trust fund for his adopted daughter, then a minor, ...
Where testator bequeathed to one of his brothers the sum of five dollars, this amount to be in full...
A widow was entitled to have the testator\u27s pre-marital will revoked because the mere naming of t...
Testatrix left a will containing the following bequest: . . . I give, devise and bequeath to my bro...
The testator had been married twice. By his first wife he had one child, the plaintiff. When he and ...
After two bequests, each of an absolute interest in one-third of her property, to a niece and a neph...
Testator\u27s will created a trust of realty and personalty worth about nine million dollars. Small ...