Dawley v. Dawley

The testator died suddenly at the age of fifty-two years from a coronary occlusion. He was graduated in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and held a Master’s degree in science at the University of Wisconsin. About the year 1925 Mr. Dawley began raising white rats for laboratory experimental purposes. The business was operated through a corporation, Sprague-Dawley, Inc., of which Mr. Dawley owned practically all of the stock. The business was very successful and the decedent *518left an estate of nearly $235,000. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization…