In re the Estate of Goss

Citations

• 73 Wash. 330
• 132 P. 409
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1604

Syllabus

<p>Executors and Administrators — Rights of Administrator and Legatees — Assignment of Legacy. An administratrix with, the will annexed may purchase, with her individual funds, the interests of the residuary legatee, and the assignment thereof is not fraudulent as to the other legatees by reason of her relation to the estate, when she did not use the money of the estate to obtain a pecuniary advantage or to perpetrate a fraud upon the rights of the other legatees.</p> <p>Wills — Estoppel to Attack — Election — Accepting Benefits. Beneficiaries of specific legacies under a will accepting tlieir legacies under an order of distribution thereby elect to take under the will, and cannot contest the provisions of the will under which the residuary estate is distributed.</p> <p>Executobs and Administbatobs — Distkibution—Conclusiveness. Beneficiaries under a will who took no exceptions or appeal from an order approving a settlement and discharging an administratrix with the will annexed are precluded from attacking the acts of the administratrix in settling the estate.</p>