Butler v. Butler

John N. Butler died in 1923, leaving Rebecca J. Butler, the petitioner herein, his surviving spouse. His estate consisted of separate property acquired before his marriage with petitioner, and appears to have been invested wholly in bonds, mortgages and like securities. Theré were no children of the marriage between deceased and the petitioner. By his last will, which was admitted to probate in Spokane county, this state, decedent gave his wife the income from ten thousand dollars during her natural lifetime, or until she remarried, specifically bequeathing the principal to his children by a…