Giles v. Little
Supreme Court of the United States
Ekrok to the Circuit Court- of the United States for the District of Nebraska. This was an action for the recovery of lot No. 6, in block 54, in the city of Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Ekrok to the Circuit Court- of the United States for the District of Nebraska. This was an action for the recovery of lot No. 6, in block 54, in the city of Lincoln, Nebraska. The following are the material averments of the petition: — “ On June 10, 1869, and thence up to his death, Jacob Dawson was seised and possessed of divers real and personal estates of great value, and had a wife named Edith J., and six children who were on said day minor's, and some very young,-and all without any property whatever, his wife being seised and possessed in her own right of real and personal estates of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Woods,
after stating the case, delivered the. opinion of the court.
The contention of the plaintiff , in error is, that Edith J. Dawson took, under the will of her deceased husband, Jacob Dawson, an estate for life, subject to be determined in case she contracted another marriage, with remainder to the heirs of Jacob Dawson; and that the power of disposal conferred oh her by the will was only coextensive with the estate which she-took under the will, — that is to say, the power was granted hef to dispose of her life-estate, and, consequently, that the estate' conveyed by her deed to…
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