Hardenburgh v. Hardenburgh
Supreme Court of Iowa
'Appeal from Cass District Court.— Hon O. D. Wheeler, Judge. This is a contest over the last will and testament of Thomas Hardenburgh, deceased. There was a trial to a jury and a verdict sustaining the will. From a judgment on the verdict the contestants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Sherwin, J.—
The contestants, Mary Rahm, Georgiana Dean, Alice H. Phelps, and Ada Lancaster, are daughters of the deceased Thomas Hardenburgh. In the contest filed by thém they allege that, at the time of the execution of the will on the Yth day of March, 1903, Thomas Harden-burgh was ninety years of age, and very infirm in mind and body, and did not have sufficient mental capacity to make a will or to comprehend the nature and effect of the instrument that he then signed; that the said Thomas Harden-burgh, at the time of executing the will, was laboring under delusions which influenced him in…
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