Welch v. Welch

There is involved in this cause the construction and application of paragraphs two and four of the last will and testament of C. Welch, deceased. His widow, Maud T. Welch, the appellee, claimed, under the second paragraph of the will, a Lincoln automobile of which her husband died seized and possessed. The court below rendered a decree sustaining appellee’s contention. From that decree appellants prosecute this appeal.

The two paragraphs of the will in question (second and fourth) are in this language:

“2d. I hereby give and bequeath to my wife, Maud Trickle Welch, twenty-five thousand dollars…