State v. Nieuwenhuis

FULLER, C.

This controversy arises out of a contest of the will of Henry P. Tjarks, deceased, late of Charles Mix county. The petition to contest said will was filed by the- respondent, state *638of South -Dakota. It alleged that Tjarks died intestate and without heirs, and that a certain alleged copy of an alleged lost will of the decedent, which had previously been admitted to probate, was not in fact a copy of any will executed by the decedent, and that the same had been fraudulently manufactured and offered for probate for the purpose of defrauding the persons lawfully entitled to succeed to…