Court Opinion

ID: 8034500
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 03:19:12.751416+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:37:05.063464
License: Public Domain

Dean, J.,
dissenting.
I do not agree with the conclusions expressed in the main opinion. It appears to me that the terms of the will of the senior Mareonnit provided that the plaintiff shall inherit the homestead, which was of the approximate value of $4,000, and that when plaintiff reached the age of 45 years she should receive the sum of $12,000 from the estate. When the suit was tried plaintiff was past the age of 45 years, but she had never received any part of the $12,000 bequest. The will provides that the son shall inherit certain real estate, but that it shall be subject to the payment to plaintiff of the $12,000, which was bequeathed to her by her father and which was made a specific charge agáinst the real estate. The following provision is in the will. “For the purpose of carrying out the terms of this bequest I hereby give, bequeath and devise unto my said executors hereinafter named (the testator’s widow and his son Fred) the said sum of twelve thousand ($12,000) dollars upon the terms and conditions stated in this item of my will. * * * My said executors hereinafter named shall hold said twelve thousand ($12,000) dollars and invest the same as above provided until my said daughter Lizzie Clarke reaches the age of forty-five (45) years.”
Some time in July, 1919, the senior Mareonnit purported to convey certain farms located in Nemaha and Otoe counties to the defendant. This was six years before his death. The will was written in 1909, and was ratified and confirmed in a codicil which was executed ten years thereafter, namely, in 1919, that being the same year in which the deeds were executed. The defendant, however, testified that he did not have the above named deeds recorded until the year after the death of his father, namely, in 1925, nor did he tell his sister about the deeds until several weeks *588after his father had passed away. Clearly the defendant appears to have recognized his sister’s rights. I submit thát the real estate should be held subject to the $12,000 bequest and that it was the intention of the senior Marconnit that the defendant should inherit such real estate subject to the payment of $12,000 to his sister, the plaintiff herein.