IN RE ESTATE OF BROOKS

No. 5168-1.

20 Wn. App. 311 (1978)

579 P.2d 1351

In the Matter of the Estate of ELOISE LORRAINE BROOKS. TOMMY BROOKS, Respondent, v. SHARON MORTON, Appellant.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One.

June 5, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Webster, Kroum & Bass and Gary F. Bass, for appellant.

P.J. Sferra, for respondent.


DORE, J.

This is an appeal from a King County Superior Court ruling that certain language in a will created a trust.

Eloise Brooks, a divorced woman, died September 21, 1974, survived by her two minor children. She left a will dated March 14, 1974, which named her sister, Sharon Morton, as executrix. The will left certain specific property to her two children and appointed Sharon Morton to be guardian and have actual custody of the children. Paragraph VI of...

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