IN RE SOANLAN'S ESTATE

No. 48506.

67 N.W.2d 5 (1954)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Dr. M. SCANLAN, also known as Dr. Maurice Scanlan, Deceased. Winifred WOLFE, Appellant, v. Thomas J. SCANLAN, John Raymond Scanlan, William T. Quirk, Joseph R. Quirk, by Monticello State Bank, as guardian, Mary Stowers, Eileen Vogel, Genevieve L. Scanlan, Marie L. Hughes, Gertrude Wolfe and Thomas J. Scanlan, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 16, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. L. Irwin, Don A. Sagers, DeWitt, and Lane & Waterman, Davenport, for appellant.

Holleran & Holleran, E. C. Halbach, Clinton, and William R. Mockridge, DeWitt, for appellees.


OLIVER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying admission to probate of the purported will of Dr. Maurice Scanlan, of DeWitt, Iowa, executed March 25, 1951, at Mercy Hospital, Davenport. He died there April 3, 1951, aged seventy-six years.

Dr. Scanlan had been engaged in the general practice of medicine at DeWitt, for many years. His wife died in 1943. They had no children and his only heirs at law were ten adult nephews and nieces, who are the...

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