Estate of Allen

The record in this case is unnecessarily lengthy, the testimony consisting of 1,887 pages of typewritten matter. In order to ascertain the merits of the cause, we have studied the entire transcript with much care; and, in so doing, we have been compelled to read a mass of irrelevant matter in order to sift out the relevant.

“Every person of twenty-one years of age and upwards of sound mind may, by last will, devise all his estate, real and personal * *." Or. L., § 10092.

In this state, a sane man free from restraint may will his estate to whomsoever he may choose.

The first question that arises…