Holtzclaw v. Arneau

CLAYTON, Justice.

On May 8, 1978, the following document was handwritten and signed by Dr. Morris Holtzclaw:

To whom it may concern:

In case something should happen to me everything I own or have goes to my wife — Bea—without reservation.

While in Florida Bob Arneau told me the deed to the farm had been erased & put in my wife’s name — and if I didn’t sign this paper giving him 100,000 or 200,-000 thousand dollars I don’t know that my wife Bea could be put in the penitentiary — which frightened me — consequently I signed the note. I do not owe him a cent — and want this declared as annuled today…