Wendl v. Fuerst
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: William Galloway, Judge. This is a will contest by John B. Wei^dl and Regina Wendl against Rt. Rev. Placidus Fuerst, abbot of St. Benedict’s Abbey of Mt. Angel, Oregon, and the Very Rev. Adelhelm Odermatt, O. S. B., prior of St. Benedict’s Abbey, Mt. Angel, Oregon, and the Order of St. Benedict’s Abbey, a corporation, of Mt. Angel, Marion County, Oregon. The will was admitted to probate and contestants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ramsey
Rev. Emmeran D. Wendl, a Roman Catholic priest, died at Mt. Angel, Marion County, Oregon, on the *285twenty-third day of November, 1910, at the age of 67 years. He had never been married, and he left surviving him as his sole heirs at law the contestants, John B. Wendl, his brother, and Regina Wendl, his sister. The contestants are not residents of this state. They, too, are members of the Roman Catholic church.
Rt. Rev. Placidus Fuerst is the abbot of St. Benediet’s Abbey, at Mt. Angel, and Very Rev. Adelhelm Odermatt, O. S. B., is the prior of said abbey.
The decedent, Emmeran I). Wendl, was an…
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