Smith v. Dubuque Bank & Trust Co.

McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

The issue in this appeal is whether the district court erred in determining that Iowa Code section 633.276 (1995) precludes the bequest of a bank savings account by means of incorporating extrinsic documents into a will. Finding no error, we affirm.

I. Background facts and proceedings. This ease involves the purported bequest, in a document extrinsic to a will, of the testatrix’s bank savings account to her niece. On April 24, 1978, Kathryn Mettel executed a will. On September 5, 1989, she executed a codicil which added the following article to her will:

It may be my…