Spackman v. Webb

Citations

• 63 Wash. 5
• 114 P. 877
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 1149

Syllabus

<p>Deeds— Validity — Mental Capacity — Evidence -— Sufficiency. Déeds and a bill of sale disposing of all the grantor’s property during his last illness, and in view of approaching death, will not be set aside at the suit of persons as to whom there was no more than a bare possibility of heirship, and there was only the most meager testimony of mental incapacity on the part of the grantor, consisting principally of statements attributed to the physician that he was in a “dying condition,” witnesses testified to his competency, and the witnesses to the deed were not called.</p> <p>Escheat — Want of Heibs — Evidence — Sufficiency. The state cannot claim an escheat merely because parties failed to show that they were heirs of the deceased.</p>