Clancy v. McElroy

Citations

• 30 Wash. 567
• 70 P. 1095
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 723

Syllabus

<p>EXECUTORS-FAILURE TO FILE INVENTORY-REMOVAL-DISCRETION OF COURT.</p> <p>Bal. Code, § 6208, authorizing the court to revoke letters testamentary, where the executor fails to file his inventory of the estate within the period prescribed by statute, or within such further time, not exceeding three months, as the court shall allow, is directory instead of mandatory, and the authority of the court to remove in case of a failure of the executor to comply rests in its sound legal discretion.</p>