McGowan v. Baldwin
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Charles O. Baldwin, administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of Thomas F. McGowan, deceased, petitioned the probate -court of St. Louis county for license to sell, for payment of debts, the residue of the real estate of the testator, which consisted of the homestead — a half-lot in Duluth.
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Charles O. Baldwin, administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of Thomas F. McGowan, deceased, petitioned the probate -court of St. Louis county for license to sell, for payment of debts, the residue of the real estate of the testator, which consisted of the homestead — a half-lot in Duluth. At the bearing the application was opposed by Annabelle McGowan and others, sisters and devisees of the testator, but was granted, and they appealed to the district court for St. Louis county, where the appeal was heard by Stearns, J., and the order of the probate court affirmed. The order…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
Thomas McGowan, the testator mentioned in these proceedings, died on the 7th day of February, 1887, leaving, him surviving, Susan McGowan, his widow, and his three sisters, the appellants. By his will, set out in the record, he disposed of his estate as follows: “One-half of all I own to my three sisters, Mary, Eliza, and Annabelle, in Buffalo, N. Y.; the remaining one-half to my wife. In the event of my wife’s death, her one-half to go to my three sisters in Buffalo, and, in case of their death, their one-half to go to my wife.” At the time of his death his estate consisted of his *479homestead…
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