Alexa v. Alexa

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DAWSON, J.:

The plaintiff brought this action against his mother and sister to set aside a will which his father had made in his mother’s favor, and to set aside a deed made by his mother conveying to his sister 200 acres of certain lands which had been bequeathed to his mother by his father’s will.

Plaintiff claimed that the will was made in fraud of h;s rights under an oral, agreement between him and his parents made in 1893 whereby he was to have all his father’s property at his father’s death, subject only to a life estate for his mother if she…