Estate of Brown v. Brown
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeals from Linn District Court. — Host. E. 0. Ei.li-soN, Judge. These are two actions to set aside the will of John H. Brown, deceased. One is an appeal from the action of the district court sitting as a court of probate in admitting the will to probate, and the other an action in equity to set aside the probate of the will. In each action the will was sustained and contestants and objectors appeal.—
1Opinion of the Court
DeeMBR, J.—
J ohn H. Brown died on or about June 25, 1906, at the age of forty-eight, leaving surviving two daughters, Zella Stinson Snider and Hazel Brown, a minor, and his divorced wife, Ida Brown, whom we shall call the proponent. On the 3d day of December, 1903, he executed a last will and testament in due form, whereby he devised all his estate, save the sum of $1,000 to each of his children, “ to his ■wife Ida.” This will was duly filed for probate, and the daughters filed objections to the probate thereof, claiming that, as Ida Brown was divorced from J ohn II. in May of the year 1905,…
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