Wells v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas; John C. Pollock, Judge. Suit in equity by Robert Wesley Wells against Madeleine .S. Brown, Robert Ryan Brown, a minor, represented by George T. McDermott, guardian ad litem, and Joseph L. Brown. 'Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This case properly presents to this court, by an appeal from a decree of dismissal of the complaint of Robert Wesley Wells, the question whether the second and third paragraphs of the will of Laura A. Wells vested on her death an absolute estate in fee in the real estate subject thereto in Eliza J. Wann, with unlimited power of disposition, or a life estate with power of disposition during her life only, with remainder over in that portion of the property which she did not dispose of during her life, to Madeleine S. Wells and Robert L. Wells. The second and third…
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