Melchert v. Cagle

Raper, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment disallowing the probate of the purported will of Ollie E. Cagle, deceased.

Ollie E. Cagle, a resident of Pierce county, Nebraska, became ill in April, 1935, and went to a hospital in Sioux City, Iowa, on April 27, and returned home next day. On April 29, 1935, at Pierce, Nebraska, after his return home, he wrote and signed in a small red memorandum book the *48writing which was offered as his last will'. On May 9 following he returned to the hospital in Sioux City, where he remained until his death on June 4, 1935, which occurred at 11:10 a.…