Cummings v. Sherman

— This action was instituted in the superior court of Spokane county, in which action respondent Cummings, as plaintiff, and respondents Shinn and Umbach, as cross-complainants, sought to obtain an interest in the estate of Phoebe Shinn, deceased. Recovery was predicated in the complaint and cross-complaint upon the allegations that Homer J. Shinn and Phoebe Shinn, husband and wife, had made mutual, identical, and reciprocal wills, by the terms of which respondents were entitled to receive certain interests in the estate left by Mr. and Mrs. Shinn. The case tried to the court resulted in the…