HAUCK v. SERIGHT

No. 97-532.

964 P.2d 749 (1998)

1998 MT 198

Verna Joyce HAUCK, Plaintiff, Appellant and Cross-Respondent, v. Merle L. SERIGHT, as an individual and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Alice A. Sisson, Deceased, Defendant, Respondent and Cross-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided August 11, 1998.

Rehearing Denied September 3, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Johnson, Lewistown, for Appellant and Cross-Respondent.

Jon A. Oldenburg, Leonard H. McKinney, Lewistown, for Respondent and Cross-Appellant.


TURNAGE, Chief Justice.

¶ 1 In this will contest, the Tenth Judicial District Court, Fergus County, dismissed Verna Joyce Hauck's claim for tortious interference with an expectancy. On Hauck's other claims, a jury found that Merle Seright unduly influenced his aunt and Hauck's adoptive mother, Alice A. Sisson, when she executed her October 30, 1992 Will, but that Sisson was free from undue influence in other transactions. The court ordered formal probate proceedings...

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