Pickering v. Winch
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Arthur L. Frazer, John B. Cleland and Melvin C. George, Judges. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Bean. This is a contest over the probate ^in an Oregon court of the will of Amanda W. Reed, who died at Pasadena, California, in May, 1904. Mrs. Reed was the widow of S. G. Reed, deceased, and died without children. Her will was executed September 4, 1901, in this state, and recited that she resided at Portland.
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From Multnomah: Arthur L. Frazer, John B. Cleland and Melvin C. George, Judges. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Bean. This is a contest over the probate ^in an Oregon court of the will of Amanda W. Reed, who died at Pasadena, California, in May, 1904. Mrs. Reed was the widow of S. G. Reed, deceased, and died without children. Her will was executed September 4, 1901, in this state, and recited that she resided at Portland. It disposes of real and personal property of more than $1,250,000 in value, almost all of which is in Oregon. Its probate is . contested on the ground, as claimed, that the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Bean
1. This contest arises out of the desire of a number of the heirs of Mrs. Reed to divert and circumvent her manifest intention and desire as to the disposition of her property by availing themselves of the provisions of a statute of California which makes void any devise or bequest for charitable uses in excess of a certain proportionate share of the estate of the deceased: 2 Kerr, Cyc. Code,' § 1313. To accomplish this purpose they assert that Mrs. Reed was domiciled in California, and the disposition of her property was subject to its laws. The case, therefore, depends upon the single fact…
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