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ADAMS v. REED

Nos. 37,606, 37,607

168 Kan. 575 (1950)

215 P.2d 194

BERTHA ADAMS, AGNES MABEL REED, VIOLA BLANCHE LAFLIN and DAISY MARY LAFLIN, Appellees, v. WILLIAM REED, Appellant. In the Matter of the Estate of Amy J. Reed, Deceased; BERTHA ADAMS, AGNES MABEL REED, VIOLA BLANCHE LAFLIN and DAISY MARY LAFLIN, Appellees, v. AGNES JAMES, as administratrix of the estate of Amy J. Reed, Deceased, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed February 28, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Berglund, Jr., of Clay Center, and Harry K. Allen, of Topeka, argued the cause, and Rudolph Barta, of Salina, and L. M. Ascough, of Topeka, were with them on the briefs for the appellants.

C. Vincent Jones and Wayne W. Ryan, both of Clay Center, argued the cause and were on the briefs for the appellees.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

THIELE, J.:

These appeals grow out of the efforts to enforce an agreement not to contest a will.

William James Kynaston, hereafter referred to as Kynaston, of Clay county, was a single man who owned considerable real and personal property. His sister Maude Kynaston died in 1946, and sometime thereafter his sister Amy J. Reed and her husband William Reed moved into...

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