Will of Elmore v. Elmore
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: EdwaRd T. Eaieohild, Circuit Judge.. Action to construe a will, begun in the county court and appealed to the circuit court.
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Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: EdwaRd T. Eaieohild, Circuit Judge.. Action to construe a will, begun in the county court and appealed to the circuit court. January 21, 1895, Riverious P. Elmore made his will making certain specific bequests-not in dispute and containing among other provisions 'the following: “All tbe rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal or mixed, and wherever situate, of wbicb I shall die seized, possessed or in any wise entitled, after payment of my just debts and the legacies hereinbefore mentioned, I give, devise and…
1Opinion of the Court
There was also a brief by the respondent Eltinge Elmore, in pro. per.
Vinje, J.
The main question raised by the appeal is whether the children of the testator took an interest in the corpus of the trust estate that vested in them upon his death and which could be disposed of by them by will or otherwise, or whether the will created a trust estate to be held by the trustee until the death of the two life tenants and until their issue, if any, attained their majority and then to be divided among the children of the testator and their issue as directed by the will. We are favored with able and…
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