Zierau v. Zierau

The only question involved in this case is whether the seventh paragraph of the last will of Frederick Zierau should be construed as conferring upon Dorothea Zierau, the testator’s widow, a general power of appointment enabling her to divest the fee granted in the second and third paragraphs of the will. The second, third and seventh paragraphs of the will are as follows:

“2. All the half of my real estate after the dead of my wife, said Dorothea Zierau, shall be sold, and the net proceeds of same shall be send in cash to the county court (Amts, gericht) at Osterberg, in the kingdom of…