In Re the Estate of Bergau

Elsie Angstrom and the guardian ad litem for Gertrude Bergau appeal the admission of extrinsic evidence to interpret a price term in Kurt Bergau's will. We reverse.

Kurt H. Bergau died in 1982, leaving as his heirs a surviving spouse, Gertrude Bergau, who is now incompetent, and three daughters, Elsie Angstrom, Helen Proctor, and Betty Jessup. In his will Mr. Bergau devised the family home and farmland to Mrs. Bergau, but also provided for an option to purchase the farmland and/or cattle in favor of Betty Jessup and her husband as follows:

the right to purchase all or any part of any farm land…