Pagel v. MacLean

STONE, Justice.

On appeal from probate court, judgment was entered in the district court that the proceeds of war risk insurance on the life of the deceased soldier became an asset of his estate as of the date of his death. From that judgment separate appeals (consolidated here) have been taken, one by surviving brother and sisters of the deceased, and another by John G. MacLean, as special administrator of the estate of Selma Hallbom, mother of the soldier, who died pending "this proceeding for the probate of her son’s estate.

Jacob E. Hallbom, a soldier of the United States during the world…