Howich v. Williams

Appellant, a brother of the testatrix, appeals from a decree determining heirship which confirmed a devise to claimant-respondent, whom testatrix described in her will as “surviving issue of my son, a daughter, Diane Marie Hicks, *252who was born out of wedlock to Marie Hicks, of Williams, Arizona.”

Donald Frank Gilman, son of the testatrix, Viola M. Strong, was taking pilot training near Phoenix, Arizona, in 1942, when he met Marie Hicks, who was estranged from her husband, Marrel Hicks, a soldier stationed at San Bernardino, California. They began “going together” and several times engaged in…