Walker v. Hargear

Citations

• 36 Wash. 672
• 79 P. 472
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 649

Syllabus

<p>Gifts — Evidence of Intention — Sufficiency—Findings When Sustained. Findings of the trial court that the transfer of certain bonds and securities from the decedent to his niece was intended as a gift, are sustained by the evidence where it appears that he earned large sums of money, and gave liberally to all his relatives, that he had conceived a great attachment for his niece, to whom he gave preference in every way, and that he constantly wrote speaking of the securities as her own, and never required any accounting, either of the principal or of the proceeds.</p>