First Interstate Bank of Utah v. Kesler

HALL, Chief Justice:

Alice Kesler died on January 25, 1980, at the age of eighty-eight years, leaving a will and trust by which she devised only one percent of her estate to each of her five adult children, and the remainder to her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and several charitable and religious organizations. The trustee of the trust petitioned the court for probate of the will, and four of the children contested the validity of the will and trust. After a seven day trial, judgment was entered in contestants’ favor based on a jury verdict that Mrs. Kesler was mentally incompetent and…