Matter of Estate of Hoffman

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

The question in this appeal relates to the extent the latest testamentary document of testator Rudolph J. Hoffman revoked his prior testamentary documents.

Testator was a farmer in southwest Iowa. He and his wife had ten children. His wife predeceased him. Apparently she owned a house in Carroll and a farm, in which she devised to him a life estate. Testator himself owned another farm, where he lived with his unmarried son, Loren. Before her death, testator’s wife requested that testator be sure Loren was taken care of.

Loren and his brother Wilfred leased the farmland from…