ESTATE OF CUMMING

Docket No. 54770.

96 Cal.App.3d 867 (1979)

158 Cal. Rptr. 263

Estate of DOROTHY V. CUMMING, Deceased. GODFREY ISAAC, as Administrator, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. COLIN B. CAMPBELL, as Executor, etc., et al., Contestants and Appellants; GLADYS CUMMING NOLL, Claimant and Respondent.

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

September 13, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Hartman, Hosp, Richard & Schlegel, Daniel W. Gage, Monte D. Richard and Stanford E. Reichert for Contestants and Appellants.

No appearance for Petitioner and Respondent.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton and Terence M. Murphy for Claimant and Respondent.


OPINION

FILES, P.J.

This appeal involves the probate of a formal will which the testatrix attempted to alter by pen and ink strikeouts and interlineations.

Dorothy V. Cumming (hereinafter the decedent) died April 22, 1975, survived by a sister Gladys Cumming Noll and a brother Ulmont Cumming. The latter died prior to the probate of Dorothy's will, and is represented in this proceeding by his executors.

The decedent...

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