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MATTER OF ESTATE OF METTEL

No. 96-1548.

566 N.W.2d 863 (1997)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Kathryn METTEL, Deceased. Nancy SMITH, Appellant, v. DUBUQUE BANK & TRUST CO., Executor of the Estate of Kathryn Mettel, Deceased, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 23, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David James Hanson of Hofmeyer, Hurley & Hanson, P.C., Fayette, for appellant.

Arnold J. Van Etten of Kintzinger Law Firm, P.L.C., Dubuque, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LAVORATO, NEUMAN, ANDREASEN, and TERNUS, JJ.

McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

The issue in this appeal is whether the district court erred in determining that Iowa Code section 633.276 (1995) precludes the bequest of a bank savings account by means of incorporating extrinsic documents into a will. Finding no error, we affirm.

I. Background facts and proceedings. This case involves the purported bequest, in a document extrinsic to a will, of the testatrix's bank savings account to her niece. On April...

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