Wiley v. Gordon

Robert W. Wiley, then about 73 years old, made his will in 1899. This will, after some special minor bequests and after taking into account certain specified advancements, devised his estate equally to his eight children, who were then all living and adults who were settled in life. Thereafter one of his children, the mother of appellees, died, and after her death, he, in 1907, executed a codicil to the will by which he bequeathed to each of appellees a specific sum of money, the total of which sums was less than would have been their mother’s equal share, and devised the residuary estate in…