Siegley v. Simpson

Citations

• 73 Wash. 69
• 131 P. 479
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 2147

Syllabus

<p>WlLLS — CONSTRUCTION'—IDENTITY 0^ LEGATEE — PAROL EVIDENCE-Admissibility. Parol evidence is admissible to show that a legacy “unto my friend Richard H. Simpson” was intended for the testator’s friend and associate H. R. Simpson, whose full name he did not know, and not for Richard H. Simpson, who was merely a casual acquaintance whom he had met but once in twenty years.</p>