Wickersham v. Wickersham

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Miller

Affirming.

Cornelius Terhune, a lawyer by education, a farmer by occupation, and a man of affairs, died testate in 1908. He was survived by a son, David R. Terhune, and a daughter, Mary Cornelia Wickersham, wife of the defendant, John W. Wickersham.

By the first clause of his will, dated November 19, 1907, Cornelius Terhune directed the payment of his debts and the erection of a suitable monument at the graves of himself and wife; and, by the second clause, he gave to his son David a farm of 139 acres, on the waters of Salt River and Chaplin, and another tract…