IN RE ESTATE OF JOHNSON

No. 39,587

177 Kan. 368 (1955)

279 P.2d 271

In the Matter of the Estate of Mary Jane Johnson, Deceased. GEORGE JOHNSON, RUTH JOHNSON and BARBARA ANN GEORGE, Appellants, v. FRED JOHNSON, JR., ETHEL GLICK, DORATHE McCAULEY, ROBERT JOHNSON and ANNA MARSTON, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed January 22, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D.A. Hindman, of Stockton, argued the cause, and Stanley Krysl, of Stockton, was with him on the briefs for the appellants.

Robert Osborn and W. McCaslin, both of Stockton, argued the cause and were on the briefs for the appellees.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRICE, J.:

This action, filed originally in the probate court, was, in its inception, a proceeding to probate a will. Through pleadings and contentions by protestants, it was expanded into a counteraction to probate a contractual lost or destroyed will, to set aside a deed, and for specific performance of an alleged oral contract to devise.

Proponents have appealed from an adverse judgment.

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