Hinshaw v. Wright

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The question in this appeal is whether a certain 200-acre tract of land devised to John Jones by his father was subject to attachment and execution for the debts of the devisee, and its correct solution requires a construction of the will, which in part reads:

“2. I give and devise to my daughter, Mabel Wright, of Langdon, Kansas, the following-described real estate, situate in the county of Reno, and state of *793Kansas, to wit: [320 acres described] to have and to hold the same in fee simple.

“3. I give and devise unto my daughter, Ethel Miller,…