Estate of Sophia Windt

Opinion by

Baldkige, J.,

Sophia Windt, the testatrix, died on November-11, 1929. She left a will, without date, which she delivered to her brother and executor, Dr. Louis Weiss, before leaving on a trip to Europe with her husband in February, 1929. She had consulted her attorney relative to the rights of a husband and wife, in the event of shipwreck, and was advised “that the law presumed that the women and children would be saved-first, and if two would die it would be presumed that the husband would die first.” The testatrix left to survive her a husband and a son, Bernard E. Windt. She…