Estate of Wickes

This is a will contest, and from an order admitting the will to prohate contestant appeals.

The general facts are as follows: Olive J. Wickes and Alfred M. Wickes were husband and wife, well advanced in years, childless, and without kindred, direct or collateral. She was possessed of considerable separate property; he had nothing. Both were suffering from incurable disease,—she from cancer, he from paralysis,—and the interval between their respective deaths was short. Prior to his demise he was an inmate of the hospital of the King’s Daughters’ Home for Incurables in San Francisco, where he…