Snyder v. Dobson
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Kern County. Howard A. Peairs, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, J.
D. O. Dobson and Sarah J. Henderson filed a petition for the probate of a document alleged to be the last will of William A. Smith, deceased. Thereafter W. A. Snyder filed a contest of said will, on the ground that the same was not duly executed by the decedent. "Upon the hearing the proponents, Dobson and Henderson, who are the appellants here, moved the court to require the contestant to prove that he was an interested party entitled to maintain a contest of the will, before proceeding further in the case. Snyder moved the court to require the proponents to first make the formal proof of…
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