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STRONG v. WOOD

No. 65333.

306 N.W.2d 737 (1981)

Ruby STRONG, Appellant, v. Naomi Strong WOOD and Carol Strong Shimon, as Administrators of the Estate of P. L. Strong, deceased, Dean L. Strong, Naomi Strong Wood and Carol Strong Shimon, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Gunderson, Rolfe, for appellant.

J. Desmond Crotty, of Crotty & Fitzgerald, Pocahontas, for appellees.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and UHLENHOPP, HARRIS, ALLBEE, and LARSON, JJ.

LARSON, Justice.

Sometime in 1976 Philander L. ("Mike") Strong and the plaintiff, then Ruby Esterley, became acquainted. At that time Mike was a 76-year-old farmer who had lived by himself in rural Pocahontas County since the death of his wife Velma in 1968; Ruby was a 66-year-old widow living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their relationship progressed to the point where Mike proposed to her in October, 1976; Ruby, however, did not "make up her mind" to marry him until...

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