In re the Estate of Hutton
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Oswald, J., entered July 11, 1918, upon findings in favor of an executor and devisee, construing a will and decreeing distribution of the estate.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
Mary Arkwright Hutton died in Spokane county on October 6,' 1915, being then a resident of that county. She left a nonintervention will, which was made by her on December 2,1913, naming her husband, L. W. Hutton, executor thereof. She made no testamentary disposition of her property other than as evidenced by the following language found in her will:
“First: I give and bequeath unto my half-sister, Eliza Gfrombacher, of Cleveland, Ohio, the sum of One Thousand Dollars.
*579‘ ‘ Second: I give and bequeath unto my half-brother, Lyman B. Arkwright, of Youngstown, Ohio, the sum of One Thousand Dollars.
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