Estate of Brehm

This is an appeal from an order or judgment by which a portion of the estate of the decedent was distributed to each of certain corporations either specifically mentioned or sufficiently described as a legatee by the provisions of the last will of the deceased.

That part of the will which is questioned by appellant was as follows:

It is contended by appellant that the findings of fact made by the trial court are not justified by the evidence. Without here setting forth in full the findings to which objection is made, it may suffice to state generally that in substance they were that each of the corporations either mentioned or described in the will was a religious corporation duly organized and existing; and that where in the will either of such corporations was misnamed, its identity as the corporation intended by the testatrix to take the legacy by her bequeathed to it was satisfactorily established by the evidence.

From the evidence adduced at the hearing, it appeared that the will was holographic in character; that the testatrix was an officer as well as a member of the Presbyterian church; that for several years she had served such church as a lecturer; from which it may…