IN RE VAN VOAST'S ESTATE

No. 9230.

266 P.2d 377 (1953)

IN RE VAN VOAST'S ESTATE GOSS et al. v. STAPLES et al.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Rehearing Denied February 17, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sias and O'Donnell, Chinook, Betty Ann Scott, Great Falls, Charles L. O'Donnell, Chinook, for appellants.

Hall, Alexander and Burton, Great Falls, for appellants on Petition for Rehearing only.

Burns and Thomas, Harry L. Burns, Chinook, for respondents.


FREEBOURN, Justice.

This action comes to us on appeal. The question presented to us is whether or not a letter from the decedent to a stepchild is a holographic will. Two district judges found the letter to be such a will. Under the will the disposition of the property goes to residents of Montana who are stepchildren of the deceased.

The questioned instrument is a letter of seven pages, dated November 29, 1945, signed by the maker, and entirely in her own...

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