Leber v. Estate of Lamp

LARSON, Justice.

This is a declaratory judgment action wherein appellants, the children of a deceased brother and only heirs at law of testator, Maude Leber Lamp, contend that by its terms the will of decedent creates a partial intestacy and that appellants, by rule of statutory descent, inherit the residual estate of which decedent died intestate.

Maude Leber Lamp died on November 23, 1967, and her will, dated July 8, 1963, was admitted to probate on November 30, 1967. Action was commenced by plaintiffs (appellants herein) to construe and interpret Paragraphs Second and Third of decedent’s…