Case ID: ohio-law-abs_3/html/0007-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MATTHIAS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 2
    No. 18363
    George D. Oglesbee, etc., v. W. L. Miller, Executor, etc.
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Greene County, Ohio.
    1271. WILLS—1. Provision for disposing of proceeds of sale of real estate, not construed as a general residuary bequest.
    2. Passing of intestate property can be changed only by testamentary disposition.
    3. Personal property undisposed of, passes to husband when there are no children or legal representatives, although will bequeaths life estate to him.
   MATTHIAS, J.

1. In a will which directs the sale of real estate and the payment of specific legacies from the proceeds thereof, followed by the provision that “all the rest and residue of my said property realized from the sale of said real estate” shall be divided among persons named, such provision disposes only of the proceeds of the real estate and cannot be construed as a general residuary bequest.

2. All intestate property passes by virtue of and in accordance with the statute of descent and distribution; the course thereby prescribed can be changed only by testamentary disposition. (Mathews v. Krisher, 59 Ohio St., 562, approved and followed.)

3. Personal property undisposed of by will passes to the husband, where the testatrix left no children or their legal representatives, even though by provisions of the will such property had been bequeathed to the husband for and during his natural lifetime, or so long as he remained unmarried.

Judgment modified and affirmed.

Marshall, C. J., Robinson and Jones, JJ., concur.