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BUCHAN v. BUCHAN

No. 50803.

118 N.W.2d 611 (1962)

Jay G. BUCHAN, Appellee, v. Burton F. BUCHAN and Norma Buchan, his wife, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 11, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight G. Rider, Fort Dodge, and Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave, Des Moines, for Burton F. Buchan and Norma Buchan, defendants-appellants.

Archerd, Birdsall & Draheim, Clarion, for plaintiff-appellee.

Dobbins & Fraker, Champaign, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Evan Hultman, John M. Stull, George W. Murray, Des Moines, for the State and Iowa State Tax Commission.

R. Ralph Austin, Clarion, attorney and guardian ad litem.

SNELL, Justice.

Rahymond Buchan, a resident of Illinois and the owner of real estate in Illinois and Iowa, died testate in 1907. He was not skilled in punctuation, spelling or syntax. His holographic, but attested will, was admitted to probate in Illinois and subsequently in Wright County, Iowa as a foreign will. It is now before us for construction to determine the devolution of title to Wright County real estate.

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