Bomke v. Raasch

The trial court filed an exhaustive opinion in deciding the contest below, and, in view of the findings *553quoted in the foregoing statement, we deem it proper to quote in part from that opinion:

“At the time the 1935 will was drawn, he [decedent] was about eighty-one years of age. He was a farmer, and owned sixty acres of land, had personal property consisting of mortgages, bank stock, and bank deposits worth at least $16,000.

“Until his death he lived on the farm. In March of 1933 all banks were closed; in the summer of 1934 the testator was driving a niece, Pauline Westphal, to Shawano after…