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WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY v. DISTRICT COURT

No. 45027.

492 P.2d 320 (1971)

WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY and The Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital, Petitioners, v. The DISTRICT COURT OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, PROBATE DIVISION, and Honorable Carl Traub, Associate District Judge, Probate Division, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Cantrell, Lee B. Thompson, Ralph G. Thompson, Cantrell, Douglass, Thompson & Wilson, Oklahoma City, David Swank, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, for petitioners.

O.R. Cargill, Jr., Oklahoma City, Conner, Little & Conner, Leslie L. Conner, James M. Little, Leslie L. Conner, Jr., Oklahoma City, for respondents.

IRWIN, Justice:

The Last Will and Testament of James Enoch Piersol, Jr., deceased, was offered for probate and Rachel Virginia Piersol, his surviving widow, filed her petition contesting its admission. Washington and Lee University and the Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital, residual beneficiaries under the will, filed pleadings which placed in issue the right of the surviving widow to contest its admission. The specific issue presented was whether or not the surviving...

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