Fontron Loan & Trust Co. v. Salmon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The controversy is over the interpretation of a will, the question at issue being whether in the event of the remarriage of his widow the testator intended that she should thereupon cease to have any interest whatever in his property, or (as found by the trial court) she should then take a half interest, the other half being shared equally among their children.

Isaiah Salmon died January 30, 1917, survived by his wife, five children, and Birdie. Cromer, the daughter of a deceased child. His will, which was duly probated, and under which the…