Collar v. Gaarn

This action is submitted upon an agreed short record on error. (The practice is commendable.) It involves a construction of the will of Ann Eliza McLaughlin. The portions necessary to consider read:

“First. As to my worldly estate and all property, real or personal, which I shall have at the time of my decease, I hereby dispose of it in the following manner, to-wit:

My real estate, consisting of lot fourteen (14) and adjoining .fifteen (15) feet of lot thirteen (18), block forty-four (44) Evans’ Addition * * * probably worth eight thousand dollars ($8,000) — I have also a note of one thousand…