Sheeran v. Sheeran
Supreme Court of Minnesota
An instrument purporting to be the last will of Mary Sheeran, deceased, having been admitted to probate by the probate court for Blue Earth county, defendant Emma Sheeran, widow and special administratrix of the estate of Frank Sheeran, a deceased son, appealed to the district court for that county.
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An instrument purporting to be the last will of Mary Sheeran, deceased, having been admitted to probate by the probate court for Blue Earth county, defendant Emma Sheeran, widow and special administratrix of the estate of Frank Sheeran, a deceased son, appealed to the district court for that county. The case was tried before Lorin Cray, J., who, after submitting certain questions of fact to the jury, found in favor of appellant, and directed that the order and decree of the probate court be set aside. From a judgment entered pursuant to the findings, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
March 3, 1904, Mary Sheeran executed her last will and testament, by the terms of which she devised to her son, Frank Sheeran, the sura of one dollar; to her two grandchildren, children of her deceased daughter Margaret, the sum of one dollar each; and to Maria E. Sheeran, widow of M. J. Sheeran, a deceased son, all the remaining property, real and personal, and constituted her the executrix. April 15, 1904, the testatrix died, leaving surviving her as heirs the parties above mentioned. The will was admitted to probate May 27, 1904. Six days thereafter Frank Sheeran died, having made no…
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