Hewett v. Daly

DIMOND, Justice.

James Hewett died at Anchorage, Alaska, on August 12, 1955. In his last will and testament, executed in 1952, he made specific bequests of $1 each to two brothers and five sisters. The remainder of his estate was left to a friend, Grace Daly, who was named as executrix. She was also a creditor of the estate, having filed a claim in the amount of $11,175 representing board and room furnished Hewett at various times between 1949 and 1955.

Hewett’s wife, Nellie, from whom he had been estranged since 1938, was not mentioned in his will. She filed her petition in the probate court…