Collins v. Dowlan
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Annie Collins, as guardian of John J. Collins, insane, appealed to the district court for Ramsey county from an order of the probate court for that county admitting to probate the will of Sarah Collins, deceased.
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Annie Collins, as guardian of John J. Collins, insane, appealed to the district court for Ramsey county from an order of the probate court for that county admitting to probate the will of Sarah Collins, deceased. The appeal was tried before Brill, J., who made findings and as conclusions of law determined that the instrument was the last will and testament of Sarah Collins, deceased, that it should be allowed and admitted to probate, and that the order of the probate court appealed from should be affirmed. From an order denying the motion made on behalf of contestant, Annie Collins, as…
1Opinion of the CourtBunn, J.
Sarah Collins died March 4, 1911, at the age of eighty-five, at the home of her daughter Mary Dowlan, with whom she had lived for nine years. April 19, 1909, she made a will, in which she directed her executors to sell her farm in Sibley county and out of the proceeds to pay her daughter Mary Dowlan $3,000, and to divide the balance equally between her four other children. Mary Dowlan was made the residuary legatee, and an executrix of the will.
John Collins, a son, through his guardian, he being insane, opposed the probate of the' will on the grounds (1) that it was improperly executed; (2)…
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