Redhead v. Lang

This was a proceeding to contest the will of Johanna Klein, a widow, now deceased. At the time of executing the purported will, on June 14, 1944, Mrs. Klein was eighty-one years of age. By the terms of that instrument, she bequeathed to her daughter, an only child, the sum of one dollar; to the pastor of her church she bequeathed the sum of one hundred dollars, and a like sum to the minister who should officiate at her funeral; the remainder of her estate, appraised at approximately twenty-two thousand dollars, she bequeathed and devised to St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Spokane,…