In Re Hauge's Estate

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the respondent in a proceeding to determine heirship in the matter of the estate of Olai Hauge, deceased.

The decedent, a resident of the city of Butte, Montana, made a will, dated March 31, 1925, the first provision of which reads: "After the payment of any just debts, expenses of illness, if any, and funeral expenses, I give, devise and bequeath all my property to the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, a benevolent, charitable and religious institution, with headquarters at 425-429 Fourth Street, South, Minneapolis, Minnesota." He declared in…