Parkes v. Burkhart

Appellant filed a petition in the probate proceedings upon the estate of Mary M. Partes, deceased, in which he set forth that his father, Charles E. Partes, died intestate at Tacoma on August 25, 1909, leaving him surviving his widow, Mary M. Partes, and appellant; that all of the property accumulated by Charles E. Partes in his lifetime was the community estate of himself and Mary M. Partes; that Mary M. Partes was not the mother of appellant, but, by reason of her marriage to appellant’s father while appellant was of tender years, the same love, affection, and confidence existed between…