Daub's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

For more than thirty years, Charles C. Daub, this testator, and his brothers, August and Jacob, had been in business together, he having a half interest in the firm and each of the others a quarter interest therein. Their partnership articles provided that upon the death of either of the partners, the others should pay his estate a specified sum in cash, — in the case of this testator, $210,000, — and all the decedent’s interest in the firm’s assets should then vest in the survivors. Whether or not the articles were broad enough to cover the death of the second…