Phillips v. Harrow
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello District Court. — IioN. E. L. Bur-tow, Judge. Action in equity to set aside the probate of two paragraphs of the will of P. G. Ballingall, deceased, and to have them decreed to be void and of no effect. The relief demanded was granted in part, and the executors of the will, the defendant the Ottumwa Library Association, and fehe plaintiffs appeal, the appeal of the executors and the library association haying been first taken.
1Opinion of the CourtKobinson, J.
The will of the decedent contains twelve paragraphs. The first seven provide for the distribution among various relatives and other persons named of real and personal property, including the payment in money of nine hundred dollars to Mattie J. Thomas; also of seven thousand five hundred dollars to Mary J. Phillips, to be paid from that portion of the estate known as the “Ballingall Hotel Property” and other property devised to the city of Ottumwa, when the whole amount can be paid to her without serious detriment to that portion of the estate, and until that time, interest on that amount at…
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