Betts v. Betts

Jeremiah J. Betts, a resident of. Polk county, Iowa, died, leaving a will by the terms of which his son Jeremiah L. Betts was disinherited, and his estate, after providing for his wife, was to be equally distributed between his remaining children. The son, Jeremiah 1., successfully contested the will on the ground of undue influence and of the testator’s mental incapacity to make a testamentary disposition of his estate. See Betts v. Betts, 113 Iowa, 111. When this litigation had terminated in favor of the contestant, Shepherd W. Betts, and two of the other children," who had been among the…