Chase v. Ross
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. This was an action to recover certain real estate situated in the county of Winnebago. The plaintiff claimed as sole heir of Samuel Bedient, who died, seized of the land in controversy, in 1851. The plaintiff was then in her infancy, and she commenced this action very soon after she became twenty-one years of age.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. This was an action to recover certain real estate situated in the county of Winnebago. The plaintiff claimed as sole heir of Samuel Bedient, who died, seized of the land in controversy, in 1851. The plaintiff was then in her infancy, and she commenced this action very soon after she became twenty-one years of age. On the trial, the defendant read in evidence a conveyance of the land executed November 1, 1858, by one Roderick C. Wood, as administrator of the estate of Bedient, to Joel Chandler, and mesne conveyances from Chandler to himself.…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
I. If the instrument purporting to be.the last will and testament of Samuel Bedient, deceased, was duly admitted to probate as such, the appointment of Roderick C. Wood as administrator of the estate of the deceased, with the will annexed, was valid. The authority of Mrs. Bedient as executrix was extinguished by her subsequent marriage, and, there being no other executor, the county court had authority to appoint such administrator. R. S. 1849, ch. 67, secs. 8 and 10. But if such instrument was not proved and allowed as the last will and testament of the deceased, it seems clear that the…
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