Estate of Hall v. Milkovich

This is a will contest which came on for trial to the' court sitting with a jury in the ninth judicial district, county of Pondera. After the close of the plaintiff-contestants’ ease in chief, the court granted a directed verdict in favor of defendant-proponents. Prom that judgment, the plaintiff-contestants appeal.

Mack G. Hall died of cancer at the age of 81 on August 3, 1966. He had farmed in the vicinity of Pondera County since he was a young man. His first wife died about 1928, leaving him with four small children to raise. His son James, born in 1923, remained on the farm and in later…