WILLS- PARTIAL INTESTACY-EFFECT OF ATTEMPT TO DISINHERIT AN HEIR OR TO LIMIT HIS SHARE

Where testator bequeathed to one of his brothers "the sum of five dollars, this amount to be in full for any and all bequests I would leave him as a brother or heir," and certain property passed by intestate succession because of a void residuary clause, held, the share of the brother, an heir, was restricted to five dollars. LaMere v. Jackson, 288 Mich. 99, 284 N. W. 659 (1939).