ESTATE OF DUMAS

Docket No. L.A. 20642.

34 Cal.2d 406 (1949)

210 P.2d 697

Estate of NELLIE DUMAS, Deceased. MRS. J.H. MEHL et al., Respondents, v. KENNETH DUMAS et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 28, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dunlap, Holmes, Ross & Woodson and Emrys J. Ross for Appellants.

E.L. Searle for Respondents.


CARTER, J.

This is an appeal from an order in a probate proceeding admitting to probate certain papers as the holographic will of Nellie Dumas, deceased.

From the findings of fact (the appeal is on the judgment roll), the following facts appear: The deceased left neither spouse nor issue. The contestants are a nephew, niece, and brother of deceased's previously deceased spouse. The instruments admitted to probate...

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