In Re Estate of Rude

Mary A. Rude died testate July 24, 1940, a resident of Illinois. The will was admitted to probate, as a foreign will, by the district court in and for Hamilton County, Iowa, and Bert J. Dean, executor of the estate in Illinois, was appointed and qualified as executor in Iowa. He filed an inventory showing that testatrix died seized of a farm of 554.6 acres in Hamilton County, Iowa.

The twenty-third paragraph of the will provided as follows:

“I hereby order and direct my executor hereafter named, to sell and convey for cash, all the real estate that I may own at the time of my death, and to sell…