In Re Estate of Reynolds

The opinion, of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.:

On October 11, 1950, T. H. Reynolds, a resident of Kansas City, Kan., whose wife had predeceased him, died testate leaving as his only heir at law his adopted daughter, Josephine Reynolds Washington.

Omitting its introductory and concluding paragraphs, as well as its attestation clause, the decedent’s will, which was executed on July 10, 1942, and admitted to probate in Wyandotte county on November 16,1950, reads:

“As to my worldly estate, and all the property, real, personal or mixed, of which I shall die seized and possessed, or to which I…