Cobb v. Macfarland

On the 5th day of July, 1905, Judge Amasa Oobb died in Los Angeles, California. At the time of his death he held the legal title to 1,040 acres of land in the township of Denton, Lancaster county, Nebraska, and other property. The only heirs to survive him were his daughter, the defendant Mrs. Nannie O. Maefarland, and two grandsons, Prank S. Cobb and Gilbert A. Cobb, children of his deceased son, Moffitt McKinney Cobb, and his son’s widow, Mrs. Carrie B. Cobb, the plaintiff herein. He left a will by which he devised to his daughter, Mrs. Macfarland, an undivided one-half of the above…