In Re the Estate of Crouse

Small causes establish great principles but no great principle is to be established in this contest over the meager estate of a tenant farmer. The only question is whether the testator so expressed his intention to make provision for his wife, son and grandson that the law can determine such intention and apply well-known rules to give it legal effect. The right to litigate is common to rich and poor but a disposition to adjust family differences without litigation, although resulting is mutual sacrifices of asserted legal rights, might have kept this controversy out of the courts. It is now…