Estate of Dougherty v. Miller

This is an appeal by Philip D. Dougherty, the surviving spouse of Clara Dougherty, deceased, from a decree denying his petition for appointment as administrator of her estate with will annexed.

Mrs. Dougherty died November 30, 1945, leaving an estate in Kitsap county. December 6, 1945, her nonintervention will was admitted to probate, devising all her property to LaRue Myers, a daughter, and naming R. W. Miller as executor and trustee under the will.

Clara Thomas moved to Bremerton from Vancouver, B. C., in 1939, and opened the Dixie Rooms as a house of' prostitution. Later, in addition to the…