Milkey v. Cross

Dell Denison, a Syrian, came to this country from Asia Minor, where she was bom, about 1900. She married and lived in Seattle with her husband until his death, and thereafter as his widow until she died February 7, 1944, at the age of about seventy-six. All of Mrs. Denison’s children died in infancy, and at the time of her death, her heirs at law were a sister, two brothers, and two nieces, the daughters of a deceased brother.

October 12, 1943, Dell Denison made her will devising all of her estate to a friend, Katharine Cross, whom she named sole executrix of her will without bond, the will…