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IN RE ESTATE OF ESALA

No. 2018-2.

16 Wn. App. 764 (1977)

559 P.2d 592

In the Matter of the Estate of FIDEL H. ESALA. MARY FRANCES ZUMWALT, Respondent, v. RUTH N. MORGAN, ET AL, as Executrices, Appellants.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Two.

January 20, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. Heavey, Jr., for appellants.

Hugh A. Knapp and Knapp, O'Dell & Pinkerton, for respondent.

PETRIE, C.J.

Fidel H. ("Bill") Esala executed two wills during the last 18 months of his life. The first, signed on March 27, 1973, named Mary Frances Zumwalt of Kansas City, Missouri, as his sole beneficiary and executrix; the second, signed in the hospital on September 21, 1974, omitted mention of Mary Zumwalt and named Ruth N. Morgan and Florence E. Dean as sole joint beneficiaries and joint executrices of the estate. Ruth Morgan and Florence Dean appeal from an...

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