Conlin v. Sowards
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Columbia county: Chestee A. Fowleb, Circuit Judge. It appears from the record and is undisputed that Daniel Sowards died December 3, 1902, leaving a last will and testament executed April 12, 1901, and the same was admitted to probate by the county court in February, 1903, and an executrix appointed.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Columbia county: Chestee A. Fowleb, Circuit Judge. It appears from the record and is undisputed that Daniel Sowards died December 3, 1902, leaving a last will and testament executed April 12, 1901, and the same was admitted to probate by the county court in February, 1903, and an executrix appointed. The executrix having failed to file any account of her administration, and a dispute having arisen over the rights of the respective parties under the will, the plaintiff, as one of the heirs at law and devisees and legatees under the will, filed a…
1Opinion of the Court
Oassoday, O. J.
The testator was eighty-one years of age at the time of executing his last will, and was in poor health and had been for several years. He had by his first wife two children, Marion E. and Ransom J., both of whom are mentioned in that will. He married the defendant, Elizabeth L., in 1863, when he was forty-three years of age and she was *323only twenty years of age. By her he had two children, Evelyn A., born in 1866, and Florence E., born in 1876, and they are both provided for in the will. At the time that will was executed Evelyn A. resided with her husband a mile or two from…
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