Marquette v. Marquette's Executors

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

J. J. Marquette died testate and a resident of Pendleton county. His will, which was probated, after his death, named the appellees and defendants below, J. W. and L. B. Marquette, as executors thereof and at the time designated in the will (which was after the widow’s *183death) they qualified as such. After devising all of his property, both real and personal, to his wife for life and making a specific devise to his son, Columbus, the will contains this residuary clause:

“To the rest of my children, the remainder of my property, less three hundred…