Kicker v. Rowe

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

These proceedings involve an appeal by Erma E. Kicker to the District Court of Wadena County from a decree of the probate court of Wadena County making distribution in the estate of John Z. Rowe, deceased. Therein appellant sought to establish that she was the adopted child of John Z. Rowe and Ella Rowe, his wife, who had predeceased him; and that she had been omitted from the last will of John Z. Rowe through inadvertence or mistake. After trial in the district court, the latter made findings in substance as follows:

“Appellant was born June 13, 1906, the daughter of…