Estate of Blackbourn v. Brinkman

The will now before us appears to have been carefully thought out and deliberately arranged so as to take into consideration certain blood relations and relatives by marriage. The selected legatees vary in the closeness of their relation to the testator. He was a widower without children and was determined to have as the objects of his bounty persons who would naturally fall into different classes. He considered as the person of the first class his living sister. The next level appears to be the nephews and nieces of his own blood. Another class is the nephews of his deceased wife. The…