IN RE ESTATE OF McDOWELL

No. 09-0534.

781 N.W.2d 568 (2010)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Florence M. McDOWELL, Deceased, Evelyn Wanders, Trustee of the Florence M. McDowell Trust, Intervenor-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

March 10, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Ellefson of Moore, McKibben, Goodman, Lorenz & Ellefson, L.L.P., Marshalltown, for appellant.

Greg A. Life of Life Law Office, Oskaloosa, for appellees.

Hugh V. Faulkner of McCoy, Faulkner & Broerman, Oskaloosa, for appellees.

Heard by SACKETT, C.J., and DOYLE and DANILSON, JJ.


DOYLE, J.

Evelyn Wanders, trustee of the Florence M. McDowell Trust (Trust), appeals from an order of the district court granting the co-executors of the Estate of Florence M. McDowell authority to sell an eighty-acre farm owned by decedent at the time of her death. We conclude the farm should be distributed to the Trust under the pour-over provision of decedent's will, and therefore reverse the ruling of the district court...

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