Estate of Cornett v. West
Washington Supreme Court
Cross-appeals from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Oswald, J., entered October 8, 1917, upon findings favorable to the defendant, in consolidated actions for equitable relief, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, C. J.
In March, 1917, William Forrest Cor-nett and Gordon Forrest Cornett, both at the time minors, by William H. Cornett, their guardian ad litem, and William H. Cornett, in his individual capacity and as trustee under the will of Roberta L. Cornett, deceased, brought an action in equity in the superior court for Spokane county to remove the co-trustee, J. Elmer West. At the same time, the same parties filed in the same court a petition to the same end in the probate proceedings in the estate of Roberta L. Cor-nett.
The principal grounds advanced for the removal were that West, without consulting…
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