Reams v. Henney, Admr.

OPINION

By WISEMAN, J.

This is an appeal on questions of law from the Common Pleas Court of Franklin County, Ohio, which directed a verdict in favor of the defendant in an action for waste.

The plaintiffs-appellants are the children of Paulus Ziegler, who died in 1929 leaving a will in which he left a life estate in a piece of real estate to his wife, Maria Louise Ziegler, and after her death devised the property to the plaintiffs share and share alike. The widow died on the 26th day of January, 1948, and thereafter the defendant-appellee, Alfred J. Henney, was appointed administrator of her…