Jones v. Bemidji Lutheran Hospital

Julius J. Olson, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment adversely affecting appellant’s claim to an estate given to it under the will of one Edward George Dorey, deceased.

The pivotal question is whether the evidence sustains the finding of the district court (to which the case had been appealed by respondent) that testator’s omission to provide for his only child under his will “was occasioned by accident and mistake and was not intentional.”

The following facts, well sustained by the evidence, should be stated : Decedent was a resident of Redby on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in…