Will of Ehle
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Sheboygan County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: August 31, 1881, Abram Ehle made his last will and testament, the essential portions of which to be here considered are as follows: “ I give and devise to my wife, Susan Ehle, all of my real estate for the term of her natural life, with reversion at her death to my son James for the term of his natural life, and at his death said real estate shall…
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APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Sheboygan County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: August 31, 1881, Abram Ehle made his last will and testament, the essential portions of which to be here considered are as follows: “ I give and devise to my wife, Susan Ehle, all of my real estate for the term of her natural life, with reversion at her death to my son James for the term of his natural life, and at his death said real estate shall revert to and become the property of his three children, namely Abram T., Flora, and Mary, absolutely. The land so devised…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The testator, Abram Ehle, died seized of 260 acres of land, consisting of six forties, and a narrow strip of twenty acres on the west side thereof, all in compact form, and being 240 rods in length, north and south, and 173-J rods in width, east and west.
1. It is claimed that the will only covers 160 acres of *450such lands; and that as to the other 100 acres the testator died intestate; and hence that the same, upon the death of Abram, descended to James; and then, upon his survival of his wife and children, and his death, descended to his heirs at law, who in that event would have been the same…
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