Tedemandson v. Morris

The pleadings are voluminous covering as they do more than 50 pages of the abstract, but the issue is quite simple. Its decision evokes the pronouncement of no new principles, and since the result concerns only the parties themselves, we have purposely limited citations and greatly condensed facts upon which the decision is based. Since our reading of the record justifies the findings of fact on the part of the court, we adopt in substance a considerable portion thereof.

Halvor Tedemandson and Kristi, his wife, had eight children. Halvor died intestate on March 16, 1907, leaving 120 acres of…