DILLON v. PHILLIPS

PR 3006; CA A45577.

756 P.2d 1278 (1988)

92 Or.App. 65

In the matter of the Estate of Richard DILLON, Deceased. Gwendolyn Mary Dillon, Sarah Jane Conklin and Robert Edward Dillon, Respondents, v. Walton M. PHILLIPS, Personal Representative of the Estate of Richard Dillon, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided July 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael N. Bodkin, Coos Bay, argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant. With him on the briefs was Foss, Whitty, Littlefield & McDaniel, Coos Bay.

Patrick R. Foley, Brookings, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondents.

Before BUTTLER, P.J., and WARREN and ROSSMAN, JJ.


ROSSMAN, Judge.

In this will contest, the personal representative of the decedent's estate appeals the trial court's determination that the decedent's will was void as a product of an insane delusion. We reverse.

Respondents are three of the four children1 of Richard Dillon, who executed his holographic will in California in 1984, and two weeks later, on the advice of an attorney who had reviewed the will, executed a codicil. Dillon...

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