Scanlan v. Scanlan

This is an appeal from a judgment denying admission to probate of the purported will of Dr. Maurice Scanlan, of DeWitt, Iowa, executed March 25, 1951, at Mercy Hospital, Davenport. He died there April 3, 1951, aged seventy-six years.

Doctor Scanlan had been engaged in the general practice of medicine at De Witt for many years. His wife died in 1943. They had no children and his only heirs-at-law were ten adult nephews and nieces, who are the objectors or contestants herein. One nephew lived on a farm, rented from decedent, a few miles from De Witt. None of the others lived near De Witt.

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