In re the Estate of Watkins

Citations

• 116 Wash. 190
• 198 P. 721
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 1076

Syllabus

<p>Wills (20)—Validity—Intent—Undue Influence—Evidence— Sufficiency. A will which was sufficient as to substance and execution would not be invalidated by reason of having been made as part of the ritualistic ceremony of a secret order, where it sufficiently appears from the testimony of the surviving witness that it was executed by the maker at the time with testamentary intent, notwithstanding a disagreement among members of the order as to whether the making of a will was required of candidates (Bbidges and Mackintosh, JJ., dissenting).</p>