In Re Chambers' Estate

This is a will contest, the only question presented being that of whether or not the alleged will was executed as required by the statute. It is not contended that the testator was mentally incompetent to make a will, or that, in signing the document offered as his will, he was acting under undue influence.

During the month of February, 1936, Andrew H. Chambers, an aged man suffering from a mortal disease, was a patient in a hospital at Ellensburg. February 22d, three days prior to his death, Mr. Chambers signed a document of a testamentary nature, which was thereafter offered for probate as…