Matter of Estate of Nicolaus

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves construction of the term “issue” in a will.

Testator Harry G. Nicolaus was a successful banker and a man of means in Wilton, Iowa. He and his wife Edith had two children, Harold G. and Robert H. Ni-colaus. As adults, both sons worked in the bank until a later time when Robert took over the bank’s insurance business; he thereafter operated that business in the same building. The Nicolauses were a closely-knit family.

Harold and his wife Grayce had two children, Theresa A. and George R. Nicolaus. In 1951 Robert married Helen Arp, the daughter of Mr. and…