In re the Estate of Stumpenhousen
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Blachhawh District Court. — Hon. Franillin C. Platt, Judge. ProceediNgs for tbe construction of tbe joint will of Mary Stumpenbousen and Henry Stumpenbousen.
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Appeal from Blachhawh District Court. — Hon. Franillin C. Platt, Judge. ProceediNgs for tbe construction of tbe joint will of Mary Stumpenbousen and Henry Stumpenbousen. Tbe trial court found tbat Henry Stumpenbousen took tbe personal property of tbe deceased absolutely, subject to tbe payment of debts; that be took a life estate only in tbe real estate belonging to tbe deceased; tbat Mamie Stumpenbousen, Anna (Jutknecht, William Stumpenbousen, and Henry Stumpenbousen, Jr., took a fee-simple estate in tbe real property of tbe deceased, subject only to tbe life estate of Henry Stumpenbousen;…
1Opinion of the CourtDebMer, J.
— Tbe will which we are asked to construe reads as follows:
“Know all men by these presents, tbat we, Mary Stump-enbousen and Henry Stumpenbousen, wife and husband, of Blacbhawk county, Iowa, both being of lawful age and of *557sound mind and memory, do make, publish, and declare this instrument to be, jointly as well as severally, our last will and testament, to-wit, hereby revoking all former wills:
“First. All just debts and funeral expenses shall at all times be fully paid.
1 “Secondly. We thereafter desire that all property, real as well as personal, of which we may be possessed at the time of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Collins v. WickwireMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- In re the Estate of LongerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1899
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