Whelan v. Burris

GRIMSON, Chief Justice.

This case is before this court a second time. This time it is upon appeal from the order of the district court granting the petitioner a new trial. The case involves the contest of a will. The petitioner filed the will of her father, Henry Burris, in the county court of Grand Forks County and petitioned for its probate. In that will petitioner was the sole beneficiary except for a small bequest to a church. Her brother, Leo Burris, on behalf of himself and their six brothers and the children of two deceased brothers filed objections to the probate stating that Henry…