Danforth v. City of Oshkosh
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. Bubkell, Circuit Judge. Appeal from judgment of tbe circuit court affirming tbe final order of distribution entered by tbe county court in tbe matter of tbe will of Abby S. Harris.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. Bubkell, Circuit Judge. Appeal from judgment of tbe circuit court affirming tbe final order of distribution entered by tbe county court in tbe matter of tbe will of Abby S. Harris. By that will, executed in 1891, tbe testatrix, after various personal donations to her kindred and tbe kindred of ber deceased busband and for other purposes, by tbe fourteenth paragraph of tbe will gave' and devised all tbe residue, real, personal, and mixed, to' Gabriel Bouclc, Orville Beach, and Mary A. Olcott, to bold in trust for certain…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The testatrix, Abby S. Harris, by her will,, now before us, has earned the right that her name be writ large among those who loved their fellowmen, and has sought to give her charity practical efficacy in a most wise and admirable field and generous form. Much as we must admire-such efforts to promote the welfare of her fellows, we are-nevertheless burdened with the duty of testing the scheme-adopted by the testatrix by the rules and limitations which the legislature has deemed wise to impose for the protection of the welfare of the community in other directions.
The appellants contend that…
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