IN RE GERDES' ESTATE

No. 48280.

56 N.W.2d 897 (1953)

In re GERDES' ESTATE.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 10, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McManus & O'Connor, of Manson, for appellants.

A. J. Braginton, of Manson, Rider and Bastian, of Fort Dodge, and Stanley E. Felt, of Billings, Mont., for appellees.


THOMPSON, Justice.

From time immemorial it is probable that nothing has brought such disrepute in the minds of laymen upon the law and lawyers as the all-too frequent slowness in judicial procedures. Shakespeare recognized this condition; in Hamlet's soliloquy he classes "the law's delay" as one of the major trials of life, only to be borne because it seems better to "bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of." We must concede that the criticism...

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