Sarah Manoukian and Gloria Tatigian Individually and as Executrices of the Estate of Kohar Tomasian, Deceased v. John M. Tomasian

WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellee is one of the six children of Mrs. Kohar Tomasian, now deceased. Mrs. Tomasian’s will, after provision for payment of debts and funeral expenses, devised and bequeathed a sum to a. named charity, and the residue of her estate equally to her six children, who are also her sole heirs. 1 The only witnesses to the will were two of her daughters, appellants here. They were named executrices by the will and were examined in the probate proceedings. Appellee, after probate had been granted, brought this action to construe the will on the theory that under…