Matter of Estate of Pearson

SCHULTZ, Justice.

This is an appeal from the pretrial dismissal of a petition to set aside a will. Margaret Rose Pearson, plaintiff, filed a petition to set aside the will of her deceased father-in-law, Perry Pearson. Her husband, Dean Pearson, was not a beneficiary under his father’s will, and did not contest the will, even though he had been a beneficiary under a prior will. The district court sustained a motion to dismiss filed by the beneficiaries under the will on the basis that plaintiff was not an interested party under section 633.308, The Code, and therefore lacked standing to contest…