GILLETTE v. CABLE

No. 48972.

79 N.W.2d 195 (1956)

Jean GILLETTE, Mary Gillette Maurer, William R. Gillette, John M. Gillette, Charles Cable Gillette, Rita E. Gillette, Frances C. Gillette, Grace Fuller Johnson, Ida Fuller McSorley, Marlon Fuller, James G. Fuller, and Quintus C. Fuller; and Roy R. Gillette, Beverly Gillette, Dorothy Gillette, Jerome Gillette, and James Gillette, by Roy Gillette, their father, Natural Guardian and Next Friend, Appellants, v. Emll Y. CABLE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 13, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linnan & Lynch, Algona, and James & Greer, Spencer, for appellants.

Cornwall & Cornwall, Spencer, and Loth & Melton, Fort Dodge, for appellee.


SMITH, Justice.

The question of testamental competence comes to us here in reverse form and with unusual complications. But it remains, we think, the same old, familiar—and usually troublesome—problem.

On January 30, 1951, Grace Cable, then 65, and her husband, defendant Emil Y. Cable (73) executed a joint will. After giving everything to the survivor, they devised 160 acres of Dickinson County land to Donald Emil Cable, son of their adopted...

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