IN RE ESTATE OF ROTAX

No. 48-80.

429 A.2d 1304 (1981)

In re ESTATE OF Bessie Belle ROTAX.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

March 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelley & Meub, Ltd., Middlebury, for appellants.

Donald Arbitblit of Langrock, Sperry, Parker & Stahl, Middlebury, for appellees.

Before BARNEY, C. J., LARROW, BILLINGS and HILL, JJ., and SHANGRAW, C. J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.


HILL, Justice.

From a judgment after jury trial upholding the will of Bessie Belle Rotax, contestants appeal. We affirm.

Mrs. Rotax owned, among other possessions, a camp and a 500 acre dairy farm worth $280,732. She bore six sons and three daughters. All but two of the children left the farm. Two of the sons, Edward and Rudolph, remained. They, with the help of Rudolph's daughter Luanne, worked the farm. Edward lived in the main house with his mother; Rudolph...

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