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MATTER OF ESTATE OF RISTAU

No. 86-1873.

144 Wis.2d 421 (1988)

424 N.W.2d 203

IN the MATTER OF the ESTATE OF Walter RISTAU, a/k/a Walter H. Ristau, W.H. Ristau, Deceased: Ellen LITRENTA (FEHLBERG), Joyce Orr, Nancy Annen, Judy Lemke, Donna Buczek, Rosalie Jole, Michael Robl, James Robl, Frank Robl, Jr., Sandra L. Pitts, Irene McKinney, Mary Gruentzel and Dorothy Kluender, Objectors-Appellants-Petitioners, v. IN the MATTER OF the ESTATE OF Walter RISTAU, a/k/a Walter H. Ristau, W.H. Ristau, Deceased, Proponents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 10, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the objectors-appellants-petitioners there was a brief (in court of appeals) and statement in lieu of brief by Jerome A. Maeder and Jerome A. Maeder Law Offices, S.C., Wausau, and oral argument by Jerome A. Maeder.

For the proponents-respondents there was a statement in lieu of briefs by D.G. Graff and Terwilliger, Wakeen, Piehler & Conway, Wausau, and oral argument by D.G. Graff.

WILLIAM G. CALLOW, J.

This is a review of an unpublished decision of the court of appeals dismissing an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court, probate branch, for Lincoln county, Judge Leo D. Crooks presiding, which admitted into probate certain codicils to a will. The issue on appeal is whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing the appeal on the grounds that the notice of appeal was filed prematurely. Because we conclude that the notice of appeal was...

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