In Re Estate of Rotax

From a judgment after jury trial upholding the will of Bessie Belle Rotax, contestants appeal. We affirm.

Mrs. Rotax owned, among other possessions, a camp and a. 500 acre dairy farm worth $280,732. She bore six sons and three daughters. All but two of the children left the farm. Two of the sons, Edward and Rudolph, remained. They, with the help of Rudolph’s daughter Luanne, worked the farm.. Edward lived in the main house with his mother; Rudolph, and his family had their own home on the premises.

Victor and Gayle Burbo were friends of Edward, Rudolph and Luanne and, as neighbors, had become…