ESTATE OF JACKSON

Docket No. 17359.

157 Cal.App.2d 198 (1958)

320 P.2d 563

Estate of WILLIAM A. JACKSON, Deceased. ALICE C. JACKSON, Respondent, v. THE JACKSON HOSPITALS, INC. (a Corporation) et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

January 28, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis T. Cornish, Thomas J. Cunningham and John P. Sparrow for Appellants.

Donohue, Richards & Gallagher and George Olshausen for Respondent.


WOOD (Fred B.), J.

In this contest of the probate of the purported will of William A. Jackson, a major question is whether the evidence supports a special verdict that Jackson did not either by words or conduct declare to the attesting witnesses, both being present at the same time, that the instrument which they signed was his will.*

According to the testimony of one of the witnesses, every requirement for the execution of a written...

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