Wilder v. Federal Land Bank

Gilbert, Justice.

1. Where a testator bequeathed and devised all of his property, both real and personal, to his wife for life, and at her death to his three adult sons, and the wife was named in the will as executrix, and on her own initiative probated the will in solemn form and duly qualified as executrix, going into possession of the property and managing it as her own, and where she applied for a loan on the realty, representing in her written application that the money was desired for use as purchase-money in obtaining the remainder interest of her three sons, and she acquired from them…