Webster v. Seattle Trust Co.

ON RE-HEARING.

The opinion on the re-hearing was delivered February 20, 1894, by

Stiles, J.

Owing to the peculiar disposition made of this case at the May, 1893, session of the court, a petition for re-hearing was granted, as matter of course, and argument has been heard upon the question suggested by the former decision, viz., the finality of the judgment of the probate court of Jefferson county decreeing distribution of the estate of Henry A. Webster. The respondent submits that this decree was not a binding adjudication because the court which rendered it did not have jurisdiction of the…