Crecelius v. Horst

Martin, C.

This was a suit in ejectment commenced in St. Louis county, to recover certain interests in real estate in said county. The answer was a general denial. It ap23 ears from an agreed statement of facts that one William Crecelius died seized of the land; that he had of his first marriage two children, Catherine Christine and John William, and of his second marriage one child, Ida, who is 23laintiff. He died in 1874. He made his will in 1871, whereby he devised to “ my daughter Ida, the sum of $1,” to his wife Theresa, who was Ida’s mother, “ such a share in my estate as the laws of…