Gillette v. Cable

The question of testamental competence comes to us here in reverse form and with unusual complications. But it remains, we think, the same old, familiar — and usually troublesome-problem.

On January 30, 1951, Grace Cable, then 65, and her husband, defendant Emil Y. Cable (73) executed a joint will. After giving everything to the survivor, they devised 160 acres of Dickinson County land to Donald Emil Cable, son of their adopted son, Kenneth Riley Cable (subject to certain conditions); and 240 acres in an adjoining section to the seventeen named plaintiffs (“the following named nieces and…