Cedars of Lebanon Hospital v. Pagel

HANSON, J. pro tem.

In its final analysis the question for decision is whether a letter dated and signed by the decedent in his own handwriting and directed to the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital is or is not to be regarded as a testamentary disposition of his property to the hospital. The letter was admitted to probate as an holographic will, but thereafter at the behest of a brother and nephew of the decedent its probate was revoked on the ground that it did not disclose an intent that it should operate as a will. Accordingly, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital is here as appellant, contending, not that…