PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE v. JEWETT

Nos. 4119, 4135, 4140.

11 F.2d 119 (1925)

PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE v. JEWETT et al. FASSE et al. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE et al. JEWETT v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

May 16, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Colston, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Lester A. Jaffe, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for Charles E. Jewett.

Oliver B. Jones, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for Fasse and others.

Guy W. Mallon, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for John B. Jewett and others.

Before DENISON, DONAHUE, and KNAPPEN, Circuit Judges.


DONAHUE, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).

This is an Ohio will, and must be construed in accordance with the statutes and the decisions of the court of last resort of that state in reference to wills. Section 10580, General Code of Ohio, provides that every will shall be construed to convey all the estate of the devisor in lands, tenement, and hereditament which he could lawfully devise unless it shall clearly appear by the will that the devisor intended...

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