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ESTATE OF BARNES

14 Wis.2d 643 (1961)

ESTATE OF BARNES: HOVER and others, Contestants and Appellants, v. HORAN, Proponent and Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

November 28, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there was a brief by Brazeau, Brazeau, Potter & Cole of Wisconsin Rapids, for Leon Durfey and Vera Durfey, and by John A. Conant of Westfield, for Myrtle Marks, and oral argument by Theo. W. Brazeau.

For the appellant Elizabeth A. Hover there was a brief by Chambers & Nash, attorneys, and Dudley W. Pierce of counsel, all of Wisconsin Rapids, and oral argument by Lloyd L. Chambers.

For the respondent there was a brief by Callahan & Arnold of Columbus, and oral argument by E. Clark Arnold.

DIETERICH, J.

The testator, Wellington B. Barnes, died a resident of Adams county, October 11, 1959, at the age of eighty-seven.

The deceased lived on a farm in Adams county for many years with his sister, Mary Barnes. When she died in June, 1952, he succeeded as surviving joint tenant to real estate and securities in the amount of $160,000. In September, 1952, at the age of about eighty, he married for the first time. His wife died in 1956.

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