In re Appeal from Order Allowing Will of Bakke

The will of Gunhild Bakke was admitted to probate in the probate court of Goodhue county. It was contested by Christina Stene, a daughter of the testatrix, and she appealed to the district court where there have been two trials before the same judge. His first decision was that the will was not sufficiently proven. It was put upon the ground that, because the testatrix was blind at the time of the execution of the will, the burden was considered to be upon the proponents to prove affirmatively that its contents had been made known to her. Concluding that the decision was wrong, the *57learned…