In re Will of Bouck
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BtiRHell, .Circuit Judge. This appeal is from a judgment of the circuit court for Winnebago county reversing a judgment of the county court of that county construing the will of Gabriel Bouck, deceased. The circuit court made and filed findings of fact and conclusions of law, to which the devisees Mary Romm and Martha Murray filed exceptions.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BtiRHell, .Circuit Judge. This appeal is from a judgment of the circuit court for Winnebago county reversing a judgment of the county court of that county construing the will of Gabriel Bouck, deceased. The circuit court made and filed findings of fact and conclusions of law, to which the devisees Mary Romm and Martha Murray filed exceptions. Thereafter judgment was entered pursuant to such findings and conclusions, and the devisees Mary Ronan and Martha Murray appealed to this court from said judgment, assigning as…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed April 9, 1907:
TimliN, J.
Testator was born December 18, 1826, made his will April 12, 1901, and died February 21, 1904. He was an eminent lawyer, colonel of a regiment in the War of the Bebellion, attorney general of Wisconsin, and member of Congress. He came to Wisconsin from New York in 1848, was the son of W. C. Bouck, some time governor of New York, had pecuniary and educational advantages in his youth, never married, and was very eccentric in manners, speech, and style of writing. His father and mother died long prior to April 12, 1901, and were buried in…
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