Will of Knox v. Knox
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mahaska District Court. — Blow. John T. Scott, Judge. This proceeding was instituted to contest the probate of an instrument purporting to be tbe last will and testament of John Knox. There was a jury trial, and verdict in favor of the proponents. From an order made admitting the instrument to probate, the contestants appeal.—
1Opinion of the CourtBishop, J.
The only ground of contest is that the testator was of unsound mind at the time of the execution of the instrument presented. The testator died in January, 1901, at the age of seventy-six years. He had been twice ^married. By his first wife, from whom he was divorced in the year 1865, he had four children, one of whom died while in'youth, and the other three are the contestants in this proceeding. In the year 1883, and before the execution of the will proposed, he married a childless widow. She died some years afterward, and previous to his death. There were no children as the result of the…
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