In Re Kirby's Estate

This is a will contest. On March. 23, 1949, there was filed in the office of the clerk of the district court in and for Dubuque County, Iowa, an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Joseph Kirby, deceased. Objections were later filed thereto by a niece of the deceased, alleging that the purported will was of no validity on the grounds that at the time executed Joseph Kirby lacked mental capacity to make the same; also, that it was the result of undue influence exercised over the deceased by certain devisees named therein.

The case was tried to a jury and when objector…