Rudy v. Wagner

This was. an action for the partition of certain real estate in Hamilton County, Nebraska. The ownership interests involved are dependent upon the construction of a will executed in 1907 by one Matthias Wagner.

Matthias Wagner died testate in 1913, leaving his wife and seven children surviving him. The fourth paragraph of that will is the specific portion directly involved here. It provided: “I give, devise, and bequeath unto my beloved son, Carl Wagner the following described real estate, to-wit:- The South One Half of the South East Quarter (S.%S.E.%), of Section nineteen (19), Township Ten…