Mulligan v. Leonard
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello Cwowit Court. This is a proceeding for the probate of a nuncupative will. Hpon a trial involving the merits of the case, the Circuit Court entered a decree establishing the will. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
*693i. wiltj : wiiat nuncupative testandi. *692I. The decedent, upon his death bed, expressed a desire that the children of a brother should have all his property. This wish was expressed more than once, and at *693one time, in response to a question asked him by a friend who was present, it is claimed that, he expressed the desire with the intention that his words should be understood as a disposition of his property in the nature ■of a nuncupative will; on the other hand, it is insisted they amount to an expression of his wishes, and nothing more. The physician who attended him testified as follows: “…
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