Banks v. Tate

— S. L. Banks and Bessie Banks were married in 1908. During their married life, they engaged in the farming business in Whitman county and accumulated extensive community real and personal property.

October 17, 1949, Bessie Banks executed a will in which she nominated her husband as executor and devised a life estate in all of her property to him, with the remainder to a nephew, Floyd Tate, and two nieces, Grace Tate and Pearl Tate Lane. The Banks had no children.

Bessie Banks died October 18, 1955. About a month after her death, S. L. Banks delivered her will to an attorney for his advice as…