Dejong v. Huyser

K. P. DeJong, the father of plaintiffs herein, married Tryntje Yer Steeg on April 16, 1936. He was then seventy-three years old; she was seventy-one. Twelve days later, on April 28,1936, DeJong and his wife, Tryntje, executed a joint will, the material portions of which provide as follows:

“Article One. We intermarried on the sixteenth day of April, A. D. 1936, and prior to such intermarriage agreed each with the other, and do hereby agree each with the other, that in case K. P. DeJong predeceases his wife, Tryntje DeJong, that during her widowhood she shall receive from the estate of K. P.…