In Re the Estate of Coe

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wiihteaub, C. J.

The testatrix executed her will in 1897 and died in that year. In the will she provided for Theodora Margery Coe, “who has been living with me nearly all her life and has been maintained and educated by me and has become as a daughter to me, for whom I feel the affection of a mother to a daughter.” Theodora was an infant when she came to the decedent and was ten years old at decedent’s death. Decedent never formally adopted Theodora. Theodora married, had no natural children, but did adopt two daughters. The question is whether they…