ESTATE OF BLACKBOURN


260 Wis. 25 (1951)

ESTATE OF BLACKBOURN: BLACKBOURN and others, Appellants, vs. BRINKMAN and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

November 6, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there were briefs by Morse & Morse of Lancaster, and oral argument by E. J. Morse, Jr., and E. J. Morse, Sr.

For the respondents there was a brief by Harry E. Carthew of Lancaster, for Lloyd Blackbourn and others, and by Bonn & Craney of Bloomington, for Noah Brinkman and T. M. Webster, executors, and oral argument by Mr. Carthew and Mr. Melvin F. Bonn.


FAIRCHILD, J.

The will now before us appears to have been carefully thought out and deliberately arranged so as to take into consideration certain blood relations and relatives by marriage. The selected legatees vary in the closeness of their relation to the testator. He was a widower without children and was determined to have as the objects of his bounty persons who would naturally fall into different classes. He considered...

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