Bank v. Great Western Bank

*280OPINION

JACOBSON, Chief Judge,

Division 1.

This appeal questions various evidentiary-rulings of the trial court in an action in which a jury ultimately found that the deceased had testamentary capacity at the time she executed her will and a codicil thereto.

The contestants-appellants, Daniel Bank and David Bank, the natural children of the deceased, Ruth Bank Weil, raised a narrow issue in the contest of their mother’s will — whether she knew and understood the natural objects of her bounty. They conceded that their mother knew the nature and extent of her property and knew and understood the…