Truax v. Ellett

Dora B. Truax, of Des Moines, Iowa, wife of appellant, died testate, June 25, 1943, leaving no children, but survived by her husband and a number of her collateral heirs, who are beneficiaries under her will. She owned an eighty-acre farm in Guthrie County, Iowa, and most of the household goods in their home in Des Moines. This home was apparently owned by her husband and she devised to him “all right, title and interest” therein, including “my dower right” and “all my interest in said property. ’ ’ She devise'd an undivided one-third interest in the farm, the curtains and carpets in the…