In re Estate of Neis

The opinion of the court was delivered by This was a proceeding to determine the validity of an antenuptial contract and to determine the rights of the surviving widow in the assets of the estate of her deceased husband. The trial court upheld the contract and held the widow to be entitled to certain statutory rights. The executor and certain legatees have appealed and the widow has cross-appealed. The executor named filed a petition for probate of the will of Carl Neis alleging testator died August 14, 1948, leaving some twenty-one devisees and at the time of death owned real property worth $40,000 and personal property worth $15,000; that he was named executor in the will and was a resident of Douglas county. He prayed for an order admitting the will to probate and naming him executor.