ESTATE OF BAKER

Docket No. S.F. 21134.

59 Cal.2d 680 (1963)

381 P.2d 913

31 Cal. Rptr. 33

Estate of CHESTER E. BAKER, Deceased. LAURA CROSBY, Petitioner and Appellant, v. CROCKERANGLO NATIONAL BANK, as Executor, etc., Objector and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zeff, Halley & Price and Francis W. Halley for Petitioner and Appellant.

Collier & Tosaw and Frank B. Collier for Objector and Respondent.


SCHAUER, J.

Decedent Chester E. Baker left a witnessed will dated December 2, 1960, and a witnessed codicil dated August 15, 1961, both of which were admitted to probate. An unwitnessed handwritten instrument dated January 2, 1962, was denied probate on the ground that because of certain matter imprinted on the sheet of paper whereon the handwriting appears the document did not conform to the requirements for a holographic...

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