Goodwin v. Goodwin's

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in an action by The Security Trust Company, executor of the estate of Joseph A. Goodwin, for settlement of the estate and a declaration of rights. The only question before us on this appeal is the proper disposition of $25,000 representing the purchase price of a certain tract of land owned by the testator.

Testator devised his real estate, with certain exceptions, to his wife Jane Land Goodwin, for life, remainder to two nephews and a niece. The children of the niece and nephews were given a contingent remainder in the event…