Defreese v. Lake

One Peter Casler, being owner in fee -of the premises in controversy, made a will which contained the following provisions:

“I give and bequeath to my wife, Betsey Casler, all the west half of the southeast quarter, and the south half of the east half of the southeast quarter, except so much of said land on the south as will make forty acres, on section thirty-one, according to the original survey of the United States, being in the township of Shiawassee, •county of Shiawassee, and State of Michigan, it being the same farm on which I now reside. After her decease the said real estate above…