Blakeley v. Mansfield

delivered the opiniomof the court:

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Mason county construing the last will and testament of Henry Mansfield, Sr., and quieting title to certain lands in that county.

Henry Mansfield, Sr., died testate May 29, 1893, leaving surviving him his widow and nine children. To each of the children he devised a life estate in certain real estate. To his son Henry Mansfield, Jr., he devised a life estate in considerable real estate situated in Mason county, about three hundred acres of which is the land involved in this suit. After making the devises…