Olson v. Roe

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment entered February 3, 1953, adjudging that a contract between decedent, William C. Frederick, and Harry Roe, brother of Burton Roe, petitioner herein, for the adoption of the latter by decedent had been fully executed in the fall of 1907 and January 1908 at Faulkton, South Dakota; that decedent, during his lifetime, and, subsequent to his death intestate, his next of kin were estopped from denying such contract; and that the decree of distribution of decedent’s estate, wherein all his real and personal property were assigned to petitioner as his…