Nelson v. Nelson

Embry, V. C.

This case involves the construction of the will of Rebecca Covert and a dispute between her own next of kin and legal representative on the one side, and the legal representative and next of kin of her husband on the other.

Rebecca Covert died October 8th, 1894, possessed of real and personal property, and having first made her will, dated March 2d, 1894, by which she directed as follows:

*120“After the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses, I give, devise and bequeath to my husband, Lewis C. Covert, all my estate, real and personal, of whatsoever kind and wheresoever found, for…