In Re Estate of Stratman

Claimant, Clara Tammen, is a widow who, at the time of the trial, was nearly 81 years old. Decedent, Frederick Stratman, was her brother. The claim alleged that claimant’s father died testate in 1895, leaving certain real estate in Hardin county and a town property in Buffalo Center, Iowa, which were devised in equal shares to his five sons and daughters, subject to the life estate of their mother, who died in 1911; that the real estate in Hardin county was sold to one Hoskins for $25,000 on May 17, 1912, and the Buffalo Center property was conveyed to claimant for $900 on September 12, 1913;…