MATTER OF ESTATE OF SPENCER

No. 6101.

591 P.2d 611 (1979)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Robert Stafford SPENCER, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meyer M. Ueoka, Wailuku (Douglas S. McNish, Kahului, on briefs, Ueoka & Luna, Wailuku, of counsel), for contestants, appellants.

Guy P.D. Archer, Kula (Langa & Kohne, Wailuku, of counsel), for petitioner, appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., OGATA, and MENOR, JJ.


OGATA, Justice.

Contestants-appellants (hereinafter appellants), who are children of the deceased testator, appeal from an Order Denying Motion for Declaratory Judgment and from an Order of Probate entered by the court below. The question presented to us on this appeal is whether a will in which the testator gives and bequeaths his entire estate to a woman by her maiden name, is revoked by the subsequent marriage of the testator to that woman by operation of HRS ...

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