MATTER OF ESTATE OF HANSEN

No. 60459.

264 N.W.2d 746 (1978)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Ole J. HANSEN, Deceased. CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY, Executor, Appellee, v. Lyle A. HANSEN, Ardell Hansen, and Dallas D. Hansen, Appellants, and Orville J. Hansen, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 19, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herrick, Langdon, Belin, Harris, Langdon & Helmick by Charles E. Harris and Curt L. Sytsma, Des Moines, for appellants.

Cullison & Cullison and Louis, Moore & Kohorst, Harlan, for appellee Hansen.

Considered by MOORE, C. J., and MASON, UHLENHOPP, REYNOLDSON, and McCORMICK, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves a question, among others, of whether two clauses in a will are contradictory or compatible.

Testator Ole J. Hansen owned 80 acres of land (the eighty) which he mortgaged in 1964 to buy additional land. He had four children, Orville, Lyle, Ardell, and Dallas, and during his lifetime he made various gifts to them to assist them. He rented the eighty to Orville for $5 per acre...

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