PEARSON v. OSSIAN

No. 87-416.

420 N.W.2d 493 (1988)

Albert PEARSON and Grace Pearson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Dorothy OSSIAN, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

January 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter M. Calinger of the Calinger Law Firm, Omaha, Neb., and LaVon Billings, Red Oak, for defendant-appellant.

Jacob J. Peters of Peters Law Firm, P.C., and Peter J. Peters of Peter J. Peters, P.C., Council Bluffs, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Heard by OXBERGER, C.J., and DONIELSON and HAYDEN, JJ.


DONIELSON, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a district court judgment setting aside decedent Walter Pearson's will dated October 3, 1984, contending that there was insufficient evidence to present a jury question about the testamentary capacity of Walter Pearson. We affirm.

The decedent was born in 1906. In 1973, he suffered a stroke and had health problems until his death in October 1985. In 1975, the decedent and his wife moved into a low income retirement...

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