Soumie v. McLean

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs-contentants from a decree of the circuit court which dismissed their complaint contesting the will of their cousin Emilie Poole Darr, who died in Portland on April 10, 1961. The contestants, Mrs. Dee Soumie and Mr. Earl Dunn, are Emilie’s closest known blood relatives.

The defendants-proponents are Lois McLean, executrix of the estate and also a beneficiary thereof; The Oregon Bank, administrator eta of the estate; Mrs. Melvin Abbott, a beneficiary; Moyna Mitchell, executrix of the estate of Maude Moser Mitchell, deceased, a beneficiary; Hazel Elliott, a…