ESTATE OF WOLFE

Docket No. 24406.

260 Cal.App.2d 587 (1968)

67 Cal. Rptr. 297

Estate of ERNEST WOLFE, a Missing Person. DANIEL J. MONACO, Petitioner and Respondent, v. GERTRUDE PETERSON, Objector and Appellant.

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

March 29, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn, Robert J. Macdonald, Marvin J. Christiansen and Quentin L. Cook for Objector and Appellant.

Harold B. Reeve for Petitioner and Respondent.


RATTIGAN, J.

The question presented by this appeal is whether a handwritten letter is admissible to probate as its author's holographic will. The letter, which is in a barely legible scrawl, reads as follows (strikeouts by the author shown, within brackets):

"Redwood City Calif July 29...

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