Will v. Will

The sole question involved is whether Henry Will took the property by devise or by purchase. If he took it by devise' it was ancestral property. If he took it by purchase it w,as non-ancestral property.

By the terms of 8575 GC and 8574 GC, in force at the time of the decease of Henry Will, the widow took a life estate in ancestral property and an estate in fee simple in non-ancestral property. We think the principle announced in Haus vs. Vorndren, Admr., 116 Ohio St., 327, is not applicable. In that case the testator made a will by which he provided that his son should have the privilege of…