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WILL OF WILSON v. HENDRIE

5 Wis.2d 178 (1958)

WILL OF WILSON: WILSON and another, Appellants, v. HENDRIE and another, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

October 7, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there was a brief and oral argument by George J. Mangan and Walter A. John, both of Milwaukee.

For the respondents there was a brief and oral argument by R. Stanley Kelly of Burlington.

CURRIE, J.

We are confronted on this appeal with what disposition should be made of the estate of the testatrix in view of the fact that she was murdered by her husband who was bequeathed her entire estate.

James Barr Ames in his Lectures on Legal History, page 311, points out that there are three possible answers which the courts have given to this type of problem where the only contending parties are the murderer...

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