Erickson v. Reinbold

The material facts of this case extend over a period of approximately 70 years, commencing in the year 1900. At that time Charles and Caroline Buck, as a marital community, owned and farmed a section of land in Lincoln County. They had no children of their own, and in 1900 adopted a 3-year-old boy and named him Frank. Several years later a young man, apparently in his teens, named Samuel Lord, came to work on the farm as a hired hand. He lived in the family home and thereafter became the manager and operator of the farm.

In 1922 Charles Buck executed a will which, upon his death in 1930, was…