THOMAS v. STRAUSS

No. 48740.

75 N.W.2d 268 (1956)

Hobart M. THOMAS, Administrator of the Estate of Carrie Levy, Deceased, Joseph Willard Rosenfield, Joseph Rosenfield, Jeannette Rosenzweig, Marion Frisher, and Josephine Robbins, Appellants, v. Sidney STRAUSS, Barbara Strauss, Helen S. Dreyfuss, and Flora Strauss, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 6, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Camp & Harsh, Creston, Seidner & Seidner, Chicago, Ill., and J. R. McManus, Des Moines, for appellants.

J. D. Reynolds, and E. L. Carroll, Creston, and R. E. Killmar, Osceola, for appellees.


SMITH, Justice.

Carrie Levy, an elderly childless widow, died intestate September 2, 1952. Her husband had died in 1929. She left two sisters, defendant Flora Strauss, five years older than herself, and Amelia Wolf; and various more distant heirs, children of deceased brothers and sisters.

On or about April 26, 1939, Carrie Levy (then 70 years old) entered into a written contract with her sister Flora's children, defendants Sidney Strauss and Helen S. Dreyfuss...

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