Peterson v. McMicken

OPINION

Blume, Chief Justice.

This is a contest of a will. Jarda Elizabeth Nelson died in Carbon County, Wyoming, on September 2, 1951. She had property which she had inherited from her deceased husband who died in 1939. The property consisted of grazing and other lands amounting to more than 50,000 acres and some sheep and other personal property. She executed a will on December 28, 1944. In that will she left the main portion of that property consisting of the lands, sheep and other property connected with running the ranch to Elmer G. Peterson, her nephew. She stated that she made this…