Court Opinion

ID: 9690230
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:58:14.288952+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:54.319012
License: Public Domain

Wenke, J.,
dissenting.
I dissent from the majority holding because, in my opinion, it does not give the ordinary and natural meaning to the language used by the testator in the following sentence of his will: “I devise to my son Lewis W Dumond Jr. and to my grandson Lewis W Dumond 3d each one undivided half one half interest in my farms located north east of Fairmont, County of Filmore Nebraska the legal description being East % of South East % of section 3 and south % of North West % sec 2.” (Underscoring mine.)
The majority holding has the effect of eliminating from this sentence either the word “half” or words “one half.” From the very beginning in the study of *209arithmetic I was taught that half one half equals one fourth.
Simmons, C. J., and Messmore, J., concur in this dissent.