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14 Mo. 391

Swearingen v. Taylor

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided March 15, 1851

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1851-03-15

Louis Circuit Court. STATEMENT OP THE CASE. On the 9th January, 1839, William Christy, of St. Louis, made his will by which he devised to his wife Martha J. Christy for and during her life the two blocks of ground on which he resided with all the buildings for a place of residence for her and any of the testator’s children she might choose to live with her.

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Decided 1851-03-15

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Birch, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2Nothing seeming to be desired by the connsel in this case, beyond the mere judgment of this court, respecting the proper construction of the bequests of the will in question, it will of course suffice to state, as the unanimous concurrence to which our investigations have conducted us, that an estate for life only, was conveyed to the widow, by those bequests which are expressed to be either for “her support,” “for the education of his daughter” or for “the support and education of his young and unmarried children.”

¶3The decreee of the circuit court is accordingly reversed and the cause remanded.

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