Hitchcock v. Superior Court

—This is a proceeding in certiorari to review an order of the respondent denying a motion of petitioner to open a default, and for leave to appear and answer, in certain proceedings pending in respondent’s court, in the matter of the estate of Thomas H. Blythe, deceased.

After the expiration of one year from the issuing of letters of administration in said estate of Blythe, deceased, one Florence Blythe, proceeding under section 1664 of the Code of Civil Procedure, filed a petition for the purpose of ascertaining and declaring the rights of all persons to said estate. A notice was issued upon…