In re Estate of Renton

On December 4, 1891, petitioner filed in this court a copy of said will and the probate thereof by the superior court of Kitsap county, state of Washington, duly authenticated, as required by statute, with a petition that the said will be admitted to probate. After notice duly published this court heard said petition and received proof of the probate of said will, at the time and place appointed, and heard the evidence of the petitioner in support thereof.

On the twenty-seventh day of January, 1892, the contestants filed their “written grounds of opposition” to the probate of said will, alleging their interest in said will, and in the estate of said deceased, to be that of “adopted” and the only children and heirs at law of said deceased, and alleging as grounds of contest the several grounds allowed specifically by the code in cases of contest before the admission of wills to probate.

To these written grounds of opposition, filed by contestants, the petitioner filed a general demurrer, and also a special demurrer to the sufficiency of the allegations therein relating to adoption, and upon the ground that the allegations of contestants respecting the same were ambiguous,…