Schoen v. Israel

On July 9, 1906, Mrs. Caroline Adler, who was then a resident of Berlin, Germany, prepared and wrote in her own hand her last will and testament, and on July 6, 1907, added a codicil. In the will she stated that she intended to marry Heisig Isador Schaal, and that she had made a marriage settlement by which he was to receive 60,000 German marks from her estate. Thereafter.she did marry Schaal; and it appears that the only *780child of the testatrix, Sadie Adler, now Mrs. Sadie Adler Israel, settled the legacy to the husband of the testatrix, who himself died subsequently to the death of the…