In re the Will of Backes

Stern, S.

Katherine Backes died in Buffalo-, N. Y., on the 2d day of January, 1894, aged seventy years. She left surviving seven children, the youngest of whom is over thirty years of age. Prior to the making of her will she divided $1,200- among her children. After making such division, she had left about $250 cash. She made her will in August, 1891. It provides that her daughter Katherine should take the-property, excepting her cash money. It directs her executors “to cause masses to be read in a German Catholic church in the-city of Buffalo, for herself and her deceased husband, for any…