Martz v. Sedam

The material facts of this ease may he briefly stated as follows :

John King, many years since, intermarried with one Bet.hiah McCormick, who was at the time a widow, and was the mother of several children by her previous marriage. He had three children by the said Bethiah, two of whom, John King, Jr., aud Cornelius King survived him.

In 1859, the said John King, being the owner of a farm and some personal property in Johnson county, where he then resided, executed and published his last will, disposing of his estate as follows :

“ After my death, I direct that such amount only of my personal…