Gould v. Taylor Orphan Asylum
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Racine County. EmerUne A. Taylor died in 1866, testate, being the owner in her own right of real and personal property valued at about $340,000; and, in December following, her will was admitted to probate in the county court of Racine county in this state (of which county she was a resident), and letters testamentary issued to the three persons named as executors therein. The third item of the will was in these words: “ Third.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Racine County. EmerUne A. Taylor died in 1866, testate, being the owner in her own right of real and personal property valued at about $340,000; and, in December following, her will was admitted to probate in the county court of Racine county in this state (of which county she was a resident), and letters testamentary issued to the three persons named as executors therein. The third item of the will was in these words: “ Third. I give and devise unto Mrs. O. A. Dyer, Mrs. Margaret Perrine, Mrs. George Murray, Mrs. John E. Gould and Mrs. John Tapley, of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 14, 1879:
Cole, J.
With the views taken of this case, it is unnecessary to consider the question of estoppel presented by counsel. All the other questions argued are also in Dodge v. Williams, ante, p. 70. The judgment of that case was postponed, and this advanced on the calendar, that the court might have all the light which the double argument could give.
It would, of course, be mere waste of time to consider at length in each case all the questions common to both. Dodge v. Williams, being the earlier case, was therefore selected for the general…
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