Lyngen v. Tessum

Taylor, C.

The facts which resulted in this litigation are briefly as follows: In 1899, Elling Tessum died intestate owning a farm of 119 acres of which 80 acres were his homestead. He left surviving him his widow, Margrethe Tessum, and five children, Olaf Tessum, William Tessum, Miller Tessum, Mathilda Lyngen and Oscar Tessum. The mother acquired the interest of her son William in the farm who died prior to the transactions involved herein. In 1918 Olaf Tessum and Miller Tessum were appointed guardians of their mother, an incompetent then 78 years of age, and they filed an inventory in which…