McDonald v. Imus

Citations

• 102 Wash. 303

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Construction — Conditions Precedent — Restraint of Marriage. Since a will speaks from the date of the testator’s death, a bequest to a legatee provided she is legally divorced from her husband and still bears his name, is not a restraint of marriage or an inducement to obtain a divorce, since it imposes only a condition precedent and not a condition subsequent; and if she was not divorced at the date of testator’s death, the legacy lapsed, notwithstanding a subsequent divorce.</p>