Ryan v. Ryan

Action for a declaratory judgment construing the will of Nancy A. Ryan, who died September 21, 1928. She had seven children. They were living and of legal age at the time of her death. At said time her son, Matthew J. Ryan, was single and unmarried. Thereafter he married. On December 31, 1934, he died without children. He willed to his wife, Kathryn Ryan, the plaintiff, all of his property. She makes claim under her husband’s will to a one-seventh interest in the real estate willed by Nancy A. Ryan to her seven children. The other children of Nancy A. Ryan are the defendants. The trial court…