Mack v. Swanson

This is a controversy between the heirs at law of William F. Mack who died December 30, 1937, and the heirs at law of his wife, Charlotte S. Mack, who died January 22, 1939, over distribution of the estates of both decedents.

When the husband and the wife were possessed of separate estates, both real and personal, they executed May 9, 1932, reciprocal wills, identical in form, each devising or bequeathing to the other all the property of the owner for life, any residue of either estate upon the death of both to pass to the heirs of both, share and share alike. They had been married 35 years…