WILL OF RUSSELL


257 Wis. 510 (1950)

WILL OF RUSSELL: SARGENT and others, Appellants, vs. KUJATH and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

October 3, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there was a brief by Rogers & Owens, and oral argument by Harlan B. Rogers and Bruce J. Rogers, all of Portage.

Andrew P. Cotter and Vincent F. McNamara, attorneys, and Dan R. McNamara of counsel, all of Montello, for the respondents.


FRITZ, C. J.

On this appeal the contestants contend (1) that undue influence was exercised upon the testatrix, Agnes E. Russell; (2) that she was suffering from and influenced and controlled by paranoid delusions against her sister, Grace Skinner, and the children and wife of her deceased brother, Samuel Russell, Jr., which affected her in making the will in question; and (3) that mutual wills had been drawn by her and her brother Frank (who subsequently predeceased...

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