Ingersoll v. Gourley

Citations

• 72 Wash. 462
• 130 P. 743
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1489

Syllabus

<p>Abatement and Revival — Survival—Wills—Contest—Death of Contestant — Statutes—Construction. The right to contest a will survives to the heirs or personal representatives of the heir of the putative testator, under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 1307, conferring the right to contest on “any person interested” in any will, and Id., § 193, providing that no action shall abate by death if the cause of action survive, and Id., § 967, providing that all other causes of action than those enumerated in § 183 survive, whether arising on contract or otherwise; the test of survivorship being the assign-ability of the cause of action.</p>