ESTATE OF BOWECHOP

No. 10927-1-II.

52 Wn. App. 775 (1988)

764 P.2d 657

In the Matter of the Estate of HARRY BOWECHOP. LEONARD BOWECHOP, as Executor, Appellant, v. SIDNEY BOWECHOP, ET AL, Respondents.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Two.

November 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc Slonim and Ziontz, Chestnut, Varnell, Berley & Slonim, for appellant.

Susan J. Owens, for respondent Sidney Bowechop.

Dirk Gleysteen and Armstrong & Gleysteen, for respondent Charles Bowechop.


WORSWICK, J.

Leonard Bowechop, Harry Bowechop's son and executor of his estate, appeals a decree admitting a handwritten document to probate as a will, supplanting a previously admitted will. All parties to the litigation had assumed that the document was a codicil. We reverse.

In 1977, Harry Bowechop executed a formal, detailed will prepared by his lawyer. He died in 1985 at age 92. Less than a month before his death, Mr. Bowechop, while hospitalized for...

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