Thomsen v. Thomsen

More complete information of all matters bearing upon the proceeding presented to us would have been helpful in the determination of the rights of the parties. Because the suit involved transactions between the appellant and deceased, and was against the executor and beneficiaries, the appellant, under section 11257, Code, 1939, was an incompetent witness as to many matters. The facts as herein stated were established by competent evidence.

John Thomsen, the deceased, was a retired farmer who became one of the organizers of the Citizens State Bank of Wyoming, Iowa, in 1913, and was its…