Roquet v. Eldridge

After the issues were joined in the court below the judgment appealed from was rendered upon an *148agreed statement of facts. The questions for decision arise out of the facts agreed upon, which, so far as they are material, are as follows: In November, 1863, William B. Eldridge executed his last will and testament, by the second clause of which he devised to his sons Hamilton Eldridge- and Abram A. Eldridge his homestead farm, to be held by them jointly. To his daughters, Amanda and Cynthia, and to his sons William G. and Robert B., he bequeathed five hundred dollars each, to be paid in cash,…