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ESTATE OF STEFFKE

No. 224.

65 Wis.2d 199 (1974)

222 N.W.2d 628

ESTATE OF STEFFKE: WISCONSIN VALLEY TRUST COMPANY and another, Appellants, v. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided October 29, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there was a brief by Schmitt, Nolan & Hansen of Merrill, and oral argument by Leonard F. Schmitt.

For the respondent the cause was argued by James P. Altman, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Robert W. Warren, attorney general.

HEFFERNAN, J.

The order of the trial judge concluded that Priscilla Baker Lane Steffke was not, for the purposes of heirship proceedings, the legal wife of Wesley A. Steffke, because her prior marriage to Crockett Warren Lane was not effectively terminated, for the reason that a Mexican divorce in 1966 granted to Priscilla Baker Lane was invalid under the law of the state of Wisconsin. Priscilla Baker Lane was the principal named beneficiary of the will of Wesley...

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