Lamb

Plaintiffs by their action sought to have decreed and enforced against the defendant an involuntary trust. From the judgment in their favor and from the order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial she appeals.

The complaint charged that Anna Slingerland in her lifetime owned some four hundred acres of land, with a small amount of stock and other personal property thereon. She was living upon this land with her married brother, Russell W. Lamb. She was the sister of plaintiff Alexander Lamb and the aunt of the other three plaintiffs, one of whom is the daughter of Russell W. Lamb. In addition to these relatives Anna Slingerland had another brother, Theodore Lamb, and a sistér, Sarah Donaldson. The defendant was the wife and is now the widow of Russell W. Lamb, and is the stepmother of the plaintiff Geneva Klinke. In February, 1906, Anna Slingerland- executed her will, bequeathing to plaintiffs Anna Buhlert and Charlotte Sharman the sum of five hundred dollars each, and to Geneva Klinke, daughter of Russell Lamb, of whom she was especially fond, the sum of two thousand dollars, and, after these legacies, devised and bequeathed the residue of her estate in equal shares to her…