LICHTER v. BLETCHER

No. 38,834.

266 Minn. 326 (1963)

123 N.W. (2d) 612

FRANK LICHTER AND ANOTHER v. ROBERT BLETCHER, EXECUTOR OF ESTATE OF MARY BLETCHER, AND ANOTHER.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 23, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duxbury & Duxbury, for appellants.

Nelson & Oyen, for respondents.


OTIS, JUSTICE.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court affirming an order of the probate court of Chippewa County holding that bequests to beneficiaries who predeceased testatrix were not intended as part of a "class gift" and therefore lapsed, becoming part of the residue.

Decedent, Mary Bletcher, suffered a stroke on Labor Day, 1956, at a time when she was 68 years of age. The following February her husband, Arthur D. Bletcher, to whom she...

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