Estate of Glassford

The public administrator appeals from a judgment dismissing his petition for probate of decedent’s will and codicil and for letters of administration with will annexed.

The decedent, Grace Glassford, a widow, was for many years a resident of and domiciled in New York City. In October, 1948, she came west “thinking,’’ as she later stated, that she would remain a year. She arrived in Denver, Colorado, the latter part of October, living there at a hotel until the middle of January, 1949, when she came to Los Angeles. She stayed two weeks at the Biltmor'e Hotel; a month at the Wm. Penn Hotel; and…