Estate of Bradbury

Janette Bradbury died October 17, 1955, at the age of eighty-six years. Tier estate consisted of a 39-acre tract of land in Waushara county. She also had, during her lifetime, a life estate in 240 acres of land; the claimant, Irma Gorges, was remainderman.

Claimant, a niece of the decedent, testified that from 1941 to 1945, while Janette Bradbury lived alone on her life-estate property about a quarter mile from the claimant’s home, she made the decedent’s meals, did her laundry, and stayed with her overnight; that in 1945 Miss Bradbury came to live with the claimant, occupying two separate…