Estate of Toomes
California Supreme Court
Appeal from an order refusing to revoke the probate of a will, in the Probate Court of Alameda County, hi ye, J. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
In bank, Morrison, C. J.:
On the first day of August, 1877, a petition was filed in the Probate Court of the County of Alameda, by certain persons therein named, for the revocation of the probate of the will of Mary Isabella Toomes, deceased, and for the cancellation of letters testamentary granted by said Court, upon such probate, to one John S. Butler. The grounds set forth in said petition are: “ 1st, that said will was a forged instrument; 2nd, that the said Mary Isabella Toomes was not, at the date of said pretended will, of sound disposing mind or memory, nor free from undue influence;…
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