Matter of Estate of Jones

(on reassignment).

This is an appeal from a will contest involving appellees Lawrence Rohl, Ronald Rohl and Diane Schanzenbach (contestants) and appellants John Thomson (Thomson) and William and Jerald Hansen (Hansens). The trial court found that the decedent, Lester I. Jones (Jones), executed a will on November 6, 1979, while acting under undue influence and denied probate of the will. We affirm in part, reverse in part and remand.

Jones died on January 6, 1980, at the age of seventy-two. He and his wife, who predeceased him, had no children. During his life, Jones acquired ownership of a…