Giles v. Little
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKA. This was a petition to quiet title, filed January 27, 1882, in the district court for Lancaster County in the State of Nebraska, by Little and more than seventy others against Giles, Burr and Wheeler, and the children of Jacob Dawson.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKA. This was a petition to quiet title, filed January 27, 1882, in the district court for Lancaster County in the State of Nebraska, by Little and more than seventy others against Giles, Burr and Wheeler, and the children of Jacob Dawson. The petition alleged that Jacob Dawson on June 15, 1869, being seized of certain'described real estate in that county, made his last will as follows: “ After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, the residue of my real and personal property I bequeath and dispose of as follows, to wit: To my beloved…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Geat
The real question in controversy between the parties is of the extenb'pf the estate and power which Mrs. Dawson took under the will of her husband. In Giles v. Little, 104 U. S. 291, this ' court held that .she took only an estate for life, determinable by her plarrying again, and no power to convey a greater estate than she had herself. In the case at bar, the Supreme Court of Nebraska, declining to follow that decision, and basing its judgment largely upon the statutes of the State, held that she took- an estate in fee’ determinable upon her marriage, with power during her widowhood at her…
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