Steinke v. Novak

This is an appeal by Ellen C. Novak, defendant, from an entry of judgment on the pleadings by the circuit court in a suit to construe a will. Stanley Steinke and Eugene Steinke, executors under the will of Oswald Steinke, filed a complaint against Ellen Novak, their sister and a third-named executor of Oswald Steinke’s estate, for construction of parts of their father’s will. Oswald Steinke died testate in 1969, and his will provided, in pertinent part, that certain of his farm real estate should pass to his surviving spouse, for her lifetime. Upon her death, his executors were directed to…