In re the Estate of Jackson

Wingate, S.

Alma M. F. Giffhorn and Emily H. Giffhorn were sisters. The decedent, William H. E. Jackson, married Alma in November, 1929. She died approximately two years later. In 1934, while still a widower, the decedent executed the will which is the basis of the present controversy. By its terms he gave his “ clothing, jewelry, contents of trunk and purely personal effects ” to his brother, Arthur Jackson. All of his household goods and his “ late wife’s jewelry ” he gave to his “ faithful friend and sister-in-law, Emily H. Giffhorn.” The residue of his estate he erected into two equal…