In re the Estate of Jeffs

Citations

• 73 Wash. 212
• 131 P. 847
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1580

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Execution — Capacity —Undue Influence — Evidence— Sufficiency. Findings that, of several wills executed by an Indian woman, the first was entitled to probate as the only will speaking her free and uncontrolled mind, are sustained where it appears that such will expressed her wishes when she was uncontrolled by others, but after its execution her husband died, and she weakened materially in body and mind and made numerous and greatly varying dispositions of her property, readily yielding to and adopting any suggestions that were made to her, the last will being made two days before she was declared mentally incompetent.</p>