Nutzhorn v. Sittig

Do a devise and a bequest fail because of an implied revocation on account of a contract by the testatrix a few months later than the will to sell the lands devised to a purchaser ?

The testatrix, Marie Ernst, taking her title to the realty and personalty from the will of her deceased husband, Otto Ernst, made in 1895, executed her will January 4, 1897, making her relatives and those of her husband beneficiaries, she dying childless. By .that will she devised to her sister, brother, three nephews, and a child of her deceased husband, Mrs. Sittig, severally, six lots, Nos. 101 to 111,…