IN RE GOAR'S ESTATE

No. 50056.

106 N.W.2d 93 (1960)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of James E. GOAR, Deceased. Willis FLETCHER, Al M. Fletcher, Gayla Mills, Ruth Gorman, Mary Ellen Perkins, Alice Gardner, Don R. Preston, Loren J. Preston, and Beverly Jane Preston, Appellants, v. Clarence I. SPENCER, as Executor of the Estate of James E. Goar, Deceased; Fletcher F. Jennings, as Administrator with Will Annexed of the Estate of James E. Goar, Deceased; State Tax Commission of the State of Iowa; Lois Jennings; American Red Cross; Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research, Inc.; Polk County Tuberculosis Association of Des Moines, Iowa; Iowa Children's Home Society of Des Moines, Iowa, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 15, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Gallery, Winterset, for appellants.

Clarence I. Spencer and C. L. Cram, Des Moines, for appellees.


THOMPSON, Justice.

James E. Goar died testate, a resident of Polk County, Iowa, on July 18, 1958. Thereafter his will was duly admitted to probate in the District Court of Polk County, and a preliminary inheritance tax report was filed. In this report certain real estate in Texas was listed. The objectors, beneficiaries under the will of Jessie Goar, who predeceased her husband, James E. Goar, filed written objections to...

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