Maxcy v. City of Oshkosh
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from an order and a judgment of tbe circuit court for Winnebago county: G-eo. W. BubNell, Circuit Judge. On December 31, 1907, Helen A. Beach, a resident of the city of Oshkosh, died leaving a will, which was thereafter duly admitted to probate.
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Appeals from an order and a judgment of tbe circuit court for Winnebago county: G-eo. W. BubNell, Circuit Judge. On December 31, 1907, Helen A. Beach, a resident of the city of Oshkosh, died leaving a will, which was thereafter duly admitted to probate. The twentieth paragraph of such will reads as follows: “It was the desire of my husband, Orville Beach, as expressed to me in the later years of his life, that after making provision for bis relatives and those having a claim upon his bounty the remainder of his property should be given to the city of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in trust, for the…
1ConcurrenceMaeshall, J.
I cannot well forego writing briefly concurring with the decision in this case. Added te In re Kavanaugh's Will, 143 Wis. 90, 126 N. W. 672, it. marts such an epoch in our judicial history, I wish to emphasize the event to the end that nothing may be left undone which I can do to so firmly entrench the beneficent principles of the law of charities in our system that all danger of their being hereafter obscured in judicial confusion or misconception, will be effectually guarded against. “ ’Tis strange, ’tis passing strange,” that any such guard should be thought of respecting a source of…
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