North Dakota Supreme Court August 8, 1945, File 6971 (Muhlhauser v. Becker)

lead-opinion

Variegated, vagarious and voluminous as is the record in this case the issue is simple. Does the county court in *Page 106 the settlement of an estate, have jurisdiction to determine the execution, validity and extent of a contract alleged to have been made by the decedent for the benefit of third persons, whom, it is claimed, he agreed to adopt and make his heirs? In Borner v.