Gunderson v. Rogers
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Crawford county: ,Geoege ClemeNtsoN, .Circuit Judge. Action to test tbe validity of an instrument purporting to be the last will of Betsey R. Gunderson, deceased. The trial court found as facts: “(1) That Betsey R. Gunderson died on the 6th day of October, 1913, and was a resident at the time of her death of the county of Crawford in the state of Wisconsin.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Crawford county: ,Geoege ClemeNtsoN, .Circuit Judge. Action to test tbe validity of an instrument purporting to be the last will of Betsey R. Gunderson, deceased. The trial court found as facts: “(1) That Betsey R. Gunderson died on the 6th day of October, 1913, and was a resident at the time of her death of the county of Crawford in the state of Wisconsin. “(2) That she left her surviving Thomas B. Rogers, Elmer E. Rogers, Geneva Stunlcard, Effie Salmon, sons and daughters of said deceased; D'ove Stunlcard, a grandchild and daughter of Dora…
1Opinion of the Court
VxNje, T.
From the foregoing statement of facts it appears that the testatrix married the contestant late in life when she had grown children by a former marriage, she being fifty-seven years old and contestant thirty-five when they were married; that she executed the will in question on the 28th day of February, 1913, and died on the 6th of the following October.
The evidence shows that the children of the testatrix were very much opposed to the marriage of their mother to contestant, and that such opposition was so radical that some of them did not visit her from the time of such marriage…
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