Case ID: wash_103/html/0699-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mackintosh, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[No. 14722.
    Department Two.
    August 1, 1918.]
    
      In the Matter of the Estate of Lott Fillmore.
    
    Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Walla Walla county, Mills, J., entered July 24, 1917, refusing probate of a will, after a hearing to the court.
    Affirmed.
    
      E. L. Casey, J. G. Thomas, and W. A. Toner, for appellants.
    
      J. C. Hurspool and W. G. Coleman, for respondent.
    
      
      Reported in 173 Pac. 374.
    
   Mackintosh, J.

— By will dated January 18, 1915, the deceased devised his small estate to the respondent, his sixth wife,, and by will dated December 8, 1916, the appellant, his son, was to be the recipient of his bounty. The first will was probated, and the appellant in this action seeks to have it set aside and the last will admitted to probate. The respondent, in defense, claims that the deceased was, at the time of the execution of the later will, of unsound mind and that its execution was procured by fraud and undue influence. The trial court refused to annul the probate of the first will, finding that, while the deceased was competent to make a will at the time the later will was executed, the execution thereof was procured by the use of undue influence exercised by the appellant.

We have closely examined the record and testimony, which it is not necessary to recite here, and have arrived at the same conclusion as did the conscientious trial judge, and therefore affirm his judgment.

Main, C. J., Holcomb, Mount, and Parker, JJ., concur.