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IN RE ESTATE OF DUNCANS

No. 31938.

40 Wn.2d 850 (1952)

246 P.2d 445

In the Matter of the Estates of JOHN D. DUNCAN and LAURA F. DUNCAN, Deceased. JOHN D. DUNCAN, JR., Appellant, v. ELIZABETH A. SCHOEFFLER, as Administratrix, et al., Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

July 24, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Edmund Quigley and Anthony Savage, for appellant.

John W. Fishburne, for respondents.

FINLEY, J.

John D. Duncan was killed by his son, John D. Duncan, Jr., on June 3, 1950, in Seattle, Washington. The son pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree, was sentenced to life imprisonment, and is now in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla.

The question in this case is whether the son, convicted of murdering his father, can inherit the father's estate under the statutes of descent and distribution of the state of Washington.

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