George v. Conklin

On .the 29th day of April, 1937, Patrick Henry Conklin and his wife Esther E. Conklin, residents of Genesee county, executed a written instrument which they declared “to be jointly as well as severally, our last will and testament.” Following the usual provision for the payment of debts and funeral expenses the will provided that the husband, if he survived the wife, should have a life estate in 40 acres of land referred to as the “Delaney homestead” which was the sole and separate property of Mrs. Conklin. On the decease of the survivor a life interest was given to Agnes Delaney and the…