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MATTER OF CAMPBELL

No. 65734.

319 N.W.2d 275 (1982)

In the Matter of the Alonzo R. CAMPBELL Trust. Margaret J. GRAF, Appellant, v. Robertson WALL, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 19, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Mannheimer, Addison M. Parker, and Craig F. Graziano of Dickinson, Throckmorton, Parker, Mannheimer & Raife, Des Moines, for appellant.

W. Z. Proctor, J. Edward Power, and Edward E. Johnson of Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave, Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered by UHLENHOPP, P. J., and ALLBEE, McGIVERIN, LARSON, and SCHULTZ, JJ.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

In this appeal we deal with the effect of an election by a surviving spouse to take against a will.

On November 5, 1952, Alonzo R. Campbell (testator), a bachelor residing in Iowa, made his last will devising his property to trustees with directions to use the income from the property for the benefit of his only sibling, Robertson D. Campbell, for life, and with authority to invade the corpus for the sibling's needs. He devised the remainder...

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