In Re Binge's Estate

William F. P. Binge died intestate and without issue. Ida R. Binge filed a petition in the superior court for Spokane county, in the cause in which her late husband’s estate was being probated, praying that all of the estate be distributed to her as Binge’s surviving spouse. To that petition, the nephews and nieces — the sisters and brothers of Binge predeceased him — of the deceased filed objections. Trial of thd issue thus made culminated in the entry of a decree of distribution, under which certain real estate, as the separate property of the deceased, was divided; a one-half interest…