Quandee v. Skene

SAND, Justice.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Mary Louise Skene Quandee (Mary), from a district court judgment entered after a bench trial which dismissed her complaint against the defendant, George Wilson Skene (George), her brother.

On 6 July 1965 Elmer J. Skene (Elmer) and Minnie Skene (Minnie), husband and wife, executed a joint will devising and bequeathing to each other all of their property, real and personal, for the lifetime of the survivor, and, on the death of the survivor, devising certain real property to their only children, George and Mary. A residuary clause in the joint…