Maki v. Karvonen

Plaintiff and defendants Louis Karvonen (hereinafter called defendant) and Aileen Karvonen Peterson are three of five brothers and sisters, to whom their father, at death, left a farm and over $3,300 in cash. Defendant, the eldest of the five children, had worked in a mine from the time he was 16 years of age until he became 23, turning over all of his pay to his parents who deposited it in their own bank account with other moneys. Out of this account they ultimately bought the farm. During the last seven years of the father’s lifetime he was in poor health, unable to do much work, and…