Brown v. Brown

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

This appeal concerns a will contest. It is between the testator’s widow, Verna, whom he married within a year after the death, in 1940, of his first wife, Pearl, opposed by the children of his deceased son, Melville, two other living sons, and a daughter, all by his marriage to the first wife. He was 72 when he married Verna and had no children by her. His will, executed June 25, 1947, almost five years before his death, left to Verna all of his estate, consisting of his ranch home and other-rural property near Skiatook, Oklahoma, except bequests of $1.00 each to the…