ESTATE OF LAMPKIN

Docket No. 10260.

203 Cal.App.2d 374 (1962)

21 Cal. Rptr. 513

Estate of R.C. LAMPKIN, Deceased. JIM SMITH, Petitioner and Appellant, v. JAMES C. HART et al., Contestants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

May 8, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll Single, Edson & Weigand and Joseph I. Omachi for Petitioner and Appellant.

Charles A. James for Contestants and Respondents.


PEEK, P.J.

Jim Smith, proponent and sole beneficiary of a holographic instrument, appeals from the judgment of nonsuit and from the order appointing James C. Hart the administrator of the estate of Robert C. Lampkin.

Robert Lampkin, who had never been married and had no children, was 60 years of age, retired, and living alone in a small house that he owned. Smith, who also lived alone, was 68 years of age and...

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