Washington & Lee University v. District Court of Oklahoma County

IRWIN, Justice:

The Last Will and Testament of James Enoch Piersol, Jr., deceased, was offered for probate and Rachel Virginia Piersol, his surviving widow, filed her petition contesting its admission. Washington and Lee University and the Oklahoma Children’s Memorial Hospital, residual beneficiaries under the will, filed pleadings which placed in issue the right of the surviving widow to contest its admission. The specific issue presented was whether or not the surviving widow was a “person interested” as those words are used in 58 O.S.1961, § 29, which provides that “any person interested”…