IN RE ESTATE OF WILLIAMS

No. 2-56307.

216 N.W.2d 568 (1974)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Earl Stanford WILLIAMS, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fairall & Fairall, Marshalltown, for appellants.

Korf, Diehl, Clayton & Cleverley and R. Eugene Knopf, Newton, for appellee.

Heard before MOORE, C. J., and MASON, LeGRAND, UHLENHOPP and REYNOLDSON, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

In this appeal in a probate proceeding we must decide whether a farmstead of 40 acres is exempt from claims and charges against an estate.

Earl Stanford Williams (testator) owned and lived on a 260-acre farm (the farm) in Jasper County, Iowa, from 1902 until he died on July 9, 1968. His wife preceded him in death. He was survived by his insolvent son, Ward E. Williams (Ward), who with his own family lived with testator on the farm, and...

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