Redelsheimer v. Zepin

Citations

• 105 Wash. 199
• 177 P. 736
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 554

Syllabus

<p>Wills-—Construction—Payment of Debts. A testator charges the payment of all debts, separate and community, upon his half of the community property, notwithstanding Rem. Code, § 1342, making each share liable therefor, and the wife takes her half freed therefrom as against other legatees, where, by the first paragraph', he directed his executors, as soon as they have sufficient funds, “belonging to my estate,” to pay the funeral and administration expenses and all debts properly chargeable against his estate, and by the next paragraph willed to his wife her half of the community property, which, by Rem. Code, § 5917, he had no authority to will.</p>