Spencer v. Scovil

Kirkpatrick, C.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court for Otoe county, and involves the construction of the last *88will and testament of one Robert Hawke, and, primarily, the sixth item thereof, which, omitting formal descriptions of the premises devised, reads as folloAVS:

“I give and devise to my daughter, Minnie Hawke (certain property in Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and Dakota), together with, all and singular, the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances unto all and each of the above mentioned and described premises, in ‘Item Sixth’ of this instrument referred to,' belonging…