Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1911 — A Will and a Way [ARTICLE]

A Will and a Way

“You can figure this idea out fo* yourself,’* says a local attorney.. “It is one of the bits of common sense that now and then makes me doubt the omniscience of the law. A client of mine wanted me to draw up his will. He was an old man who had married for the second time, and he had grown children by his first wife. Also, he had a big bunch of property. And his Idea was to leave' every cent he had to his second wife. “It won’t do at all.” I advised him. “Your children are going to make an awful fight to break such a will, and they are likely to be successful.” *• ‘That’s just what I want to do,’ answered my foxy client. ‘I want my children to have’ a full share of my money. That’s why I bequeath everything to my wife. I know that wife of mine. And it’s going to be a lot easier for my children to break my will than it is for me to break hers.’ ”