Lowden v. Eskedor

In the sixth' item of the will, as shown by the statement preceding, the testator expressly invested his son, H. O. Lowden, as executor “with as full and ample power as I [testator] exercised when in life in all matters pertaining to my estate and business, and relieving him from making any returns to any court or giving any bond whatever.” This express provision of the will authorized the executor to buy property with the funds of the estate, to hold and to sell such property as a part of the estate as the testator had power to buy and hold for himself while in life. In Wiggs v. Hendricks,…