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ESTATE OF VICKMAN

6 Wis.2d 48 (1959)

ESTATE OF VICKMAN: VICKMAN, Appellant, v. CHRISTENSEN and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

January 2, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Duffy, Dewane, Miller & Gerlikowski of Green Bay, and oral argument by Edwin A. Gerlikowski and William J. Duffy.

For the respondents there was a brief by Kaftan, Kaftan & Kaftan of Green Bay, and oral argument by Fred F. Kaftan.

BROWN, J.

The legal principles governing the requirements of evidence sufficient to establish undue influence are well known. Within a year we reviewed them in Estate of Fuller (1957), 275 Wis. 1, 81 N.W.2d 64, in which there, too, an effort was made by contestants to interpret acts of kindness as schemes to warp the will of a dying woman.

Findings of the trial court must be affirmed unless contrary to the great weight...

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