In re the Estate of Lind
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Mackintosh, J., entered February 25, 1915, dismissing a petition in probate to establish a right to share in an estate as daughter of the deceased, after a hearing on the merits and an advisory verdict by a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
The decedent, Lucinda Clogston Lind, by will, left to her surviving husband, the respondent, Edward Lind, a life estate in all of her property. As to the residue, save certain minor matters with which we are not concerned, she died intestate.
The appellant, Jennie Clogston Ballard, by petition in the probate proceedings, sought to establish her right to this residue as an only child of the deceased. The respondent, as executor and claiming to be the sole heir, contested the petition, asserting that the appellant is a foster child of deceased and her former husband, one John D. Clogston, who is…
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