Davis v. Brown

Citations

• 112 Wash. 121
• 191 P. 1098
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 732

Syllabus

<p>Wills (74)—Construction oe Powers — “Debts” — Payment. Under a will requiring payment of the testator’s debts within six months, in which the testator showed special concern as to bequests of income “for a period of fifteen years from and after my death,” a mortgage indebtedness of ?80,000 upon the real estate was not a “debt” to be paid from income, or within six months, where it did not mature until long after that period and had not been assumed so as to be a personal liability, and the income was much too small to pay it off within six months.</p>