Will of Buchanan v. Buchanan

The proceeding is in effect one to construe a will, although in form a petition to have title in real estate declared in petitioners free from the claim of appellant under a will to use thereof during life or until she remarries.

The will of William Buchanan devised the use of a farm to his son Alexander during his life; and upon his death to the issue of his body surviving him; and if none “to his widow, Sadie True Buchanan, for and during the period of her widowhood, and upon her remarriage or her death, whichever event shall occur first,” to the children of his son James. Alexander survived…