Marten v. Staab

I. INTRODUCTION

The defendants-appellants, Barbara A. Staab and Judith M. Marten, copersonal representatives of the estates of their deceased parents, challenged in the Nebraska Court of Appeals the district court’s decree of specific performance requiring them to sell certain auctioned lands to their brother, plaintiff-appellee Karl F. Marten, and their nephew, plaintiff-appellee Adam J. Marten, the aforesaid brother’s son. In so doing, the personal representatives asserted, among other things, that the district court erred in ruling that <1) the county court probating the estates lacked…