Lichter v. Bletcher

Otis, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court affirming an order of the probate court of Chippewa County holding that bequests to beneficiaries who predeceased testatrix were not intended as part of a “class gift” and therefore lapsed, becoming part of the residue.

Decedent, Mary Bletcher, suffered a stroke on Labor Day, 1956, at a time when she was 68 years of age. The following February her husband, Arthur D. Bletcher, to whom she had been married for over 40 years, died, leaving no issue. On April 21, 1957, testatrix executed a will, the pertinent provisions of which…