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MATTER OF ESTATE OF WESTFAHL

No. 59712.

674 P.2d 21 (1983)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF L.C. WESTFAHL, Deceased. Betty Lou GOFORTH, Executrix, Appellant, v. Harold Wiley WESTFAHL, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied January 24, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butler & Pickens by David C. Butler, Enid, for appellant.

Ford, Grey, Harvey & Lisle by Jon R. Ford, Kimber Palmer, and Richard M. Perry, Enid, for appellee.

HODGES, Justice.

The questions presented are whether: 1) no contest provisions contained in a will are valid; and 2) if submission of a subsequent will for probate constitutes a contest of the prior will.

After L.C. Westfahl died on December 5, 1976, his daughter, Betty Lou Goforth, the executrix of the will he executed on April 16, 1963, petitioned to admit the will to probate. Harold Wiley Westfahl, a son of the...

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