Estate of Holcombe

There are two questions involved here for our consideration, the first, whether or not the appellant Gordon Curtis has an interest in this estate and, second, whether the ruling of the circuit court admitting the will to probate and excluding the bequest to Nellie Curtis can be sustained.

In Will of Griffiths (1920), 172 Wis. 630, 179 N. W. 768, this court held that under sec. 2289 (now sec. 238.13), Stats., on the death of a legatee during the lifetime of a testator, the legatee’s children are entitled to her share. See also Will of Vedder (1943), 244 Wis. 134, 11 N. W. (2d) 642.

As to adopted…