Bowlus v. Winters

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action to enforce a contract for the sale of 160 acres of land.

The property had belonged to one Sallie A. Bowlus, who died testate in 1916. By her will she directed that all her just debts should be paid out of her estate, and devised one-third of the annual *727crops raised on the land in question to a daughter, Maud, for her lifetime, and provided that if Maud should die before her two children became twenty-four years of age they should receive one-fourth of the crops until they attained that age, after which time and after the…