ESTATE OF WOLF

Docket No. 23824.

174 Cal.App.2d 144 (1959)

344 P.2d 37

Estate of LOUISA WOLF, Deceased. HELEN M. GIBSON, Appellant, v. MARY QUEER et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

September 29, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul S. Crouch for Appellant.

Newell & Chester, Bailey & McWhinney, Lech T. Niemo, Robert Newell and Rufus Bailey, for Respondents.


HERNDON, J.

Proponent, Helen M. Gibson, appeals from a judgment denying a petition to probate the purported holographic will of Louisa Wolf wherein said proponent was named as the sole beneficiary. The grounds of contest advanced by contestants, the heirs at law of decedent, included (1) lack of testamentary capacity, (2) lack of due execution, and (3) undue influence. Although the trial court found that the instrument, dated November 12, 1957, was entirely written...

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