Matter of Estate of Thompson

CARTER, Justice.

The plaintiffs-appellants, who are the heirs at law of decedent Virgil C. Thompson and contestants of his last will, appeal from a district court order sustaining the proponent’s statute of limitations defense to this will contest action. We affirm the district court.

Decedent’s will was admitted to probate on January 8, 1981, and the second notice of admission of the will to probate was published on January 22, 1981. On June 3, 1982, plaintiffs, decedent’s heirs at law, filed a petition to set aside decedent’s will; they alleged that (1) the will had not been executed with the…