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ESTATE OF KORT

260 Wis. 621 (1952)

ESTATE OF KORT: PASCHEN, Appellant, vs. LUCHT, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

February 5, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Genrich & Terwilliger, attorneys, and Emil Wakeen, Walter H. Piehler, and Neil M. Conway of counsel, all of Wausau, and oral argument by Herbert Terwilliger.

Walter A. Graunke of Wausau, for the respondent.

BROADFOOT, J.

Sec. 238.14, Stats., provides that wills may be revoked in certain ways, but that "nothing contained in this section shall prevent the revocation implied by law from subsequent changes in the condition or circumstances of the testator."

In Will of Battis, 143 Wis. 234, 239, 241, 126 N. W. 9, this court considered the effect of this section and held that divorce and division of property constituted a revocation by operation of law. It was...

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