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IN RE ESTATE OF DALLMAN

No. 2-56583.

228 N.W.2d 187 (1975)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Otto T. DALLMAN, Deceased. Martha PITKIN, Appellant, v. Louis H. DALLMAN, Executor of the Estate of Otto T. Dallman, Deceased, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 16, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boyle, Schuler & Oltrogge, Clear Lake, and Reitz, Reitz & Reitz, Owatonna, Minn., for appellant.

Buck & Hill, Britt, for appellees.

Heard before MOORE, C. J., and RAWLINGS, UHLENHOPP, HARRIS and McCORMICK, JJ.

RAWLINGS, Justice.

Asserting a common-law marriage had existed between herself and Otto T. Dallman, deceased, plaintiff seeks declaratory judgment upholding the claimed marital relationship and her attendant entitlement to a dower interest in the estate of said decedent. Trial to the court resulted in an adjudication adverse to plaintiff. She appeals. We affirm.

June 30, 1972, Otto T. Dallman (Otto) died testate...

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