In re Swenson's Estate
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by Cbristena Catharine Swenson and Hilda Louisa Peterson, from an order of the District Court of Goodhue County, W. C. Wüliston, J., made June 21, 1893, denying their motion for a new trial. On May 8,1884, Charles A. Swenson of Roscoe in Goodhue County made his last will. He was over sixty years old, married but childless. His wife, Dortha Swenson, was sixty years old. His father and mother were both dead.
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Appeal by Cbristena Catharine Swenson and Hilda Louisa Peterson, from an order of the District Court of Goodhue County, W. C. Wüliston, J., made June 21, 1893, denying their motion for a new trial. On May 8,1884, Charles A. Swenson of Roscoe in Goodhue County made his last will. He was over sixty years old, married but childless. His wife, Dortha Swenson, was sixty years old. His father and mother were both dead. He had two sisters, Christena Cath-arine Swenson and Hilda Louisa Peterson and one brother, Peter .John Swenson. Two girls, Mary Swenson and Mary Jennie Johnson, not related to him,…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The last will and testament of Charles A. Swenson, a resident of this state, was made May 8, 1884. He was a married man, childless, and the ages of his wife and himself were such that it could not be expected that children would be born to them. His father and mother were both dead. He had two sisters, these appellants, and a brother, the latter dying’ in September, 1891. Swenson died November 8, 1891, leaving real and personal property valued at about f50,000. By the terms of the will Swenson gave and devised to his wife, this respondent, an estate for life in and to all *307of the real property…
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