94 Iowa 336 | Iowa | 1895
I. Proponents filed for probate in the office of the clerk of the district court of Dubuque county, Iowa, an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Alice Goldthorp, deceased. By the terms of said will, the testatrix gave and bequeathed unto her daughter, Sarah Jane Goldthorp, and to her son, John B. Goldthorp, in equal shares, all of her estate, real and personal, “to have and to hold the same, forever.” C. H. Eighmey was nominated in the will- as
X. At the close of the evidence, the court, on the motion of proponents, directed a verdict in support of the will. We are not required to determine whether
We may say that from the whole record we are impressed with the conviction that the trial court was unduly technical in many of its rulings. — Reversed.