ESTATE OF EVANS

Docket No. 33952.

274 Cal.App.2d 203 (1969)

79 Cal. Rptr. 1

Estate of LULIE BOWDEN EVANS, Deceased. RAY C. DANNY DOWLING, Petitioner and Appellant, v. JEAN B. NEWMAN et al., Contestants and Respondents.

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

June 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Houston Allen for Petitioner and Appellant.

Meserve, Mumper & Hughes and Thomas P. Phillips III for Contestants and Respondents.


LILLIE, J.

Appellant, unrelated by blood or otherwise to decedent, a widow without children, offered for probate a will executed by her on May 19, 1967; she died later that same day, aged 84 years or thereabouts. Thereunder, save for three bequests of $1.00, appellant was named the sole beneficiary of an estate valued at approximately $40,000. The document was contested on the four statutory grounds (Prob. Code, § 371) by her sister, nephews and nieces. The trial...

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