Richardson v. Johnson

This appeal requires a construction of some of the provisions of chapter 17, Rev. St. 1913. It appears that Emily D. Johnson, a resident of Clay county, Nebraska, in the year 1903; made a will by which she devised the net proceeds of certain real estate situated in Clay and Lancaster counties to Stephen H. Richardson, during his life, he being her husband at the time of her death, with the remainder over to Howard W., Alida May, Charles, Everett R., and Agnes Johnson, her grandchildren by a deceased daughter, who was her only child. On the 31st day of December,-1910, the testatrix departed…