Watson v. Dailey

THOMAS, Justice.

The substantive issue presented by this appeal is whether beneficiaries of a codicil to the decedent’s will who served as subscribing witnesses to the codicil are entitled to receive the bequests made to them by the codicil. There is a secondary jurisdictional issue premised upon an untimely filing of a proper notice of appeal as required by Rule 2.01, W.R.A.P. The district court held that the bequests to the beneficiaries who also were subscribing witnesses are of no effect and are void. We have concluded that this court does have jurisdiction to consider this appeal, and we…