In re Estate of Crooks
California Supreme Court
MOTION in tbe Supreme Court to dismiss an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco distributing the estate of a deceased person. J. Y. Coffey, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court..
1Opinion of the CourtTemple, J.
Susan Crooks died a resident of San Francisco, April 28, 1894, testate, and leaving a large estate. The will was probated, the executors qualified, and administration proceeded until the twenty-eighth day of November, 1897, when a petition was filed showing that the estate was ready for distribution. Notice was given, and April 1, 1898, the matter came on for hearing.
At the hearing the appellants, Wemple and Arnold, appeared and offered in evidence a document which purported to be a mortgage executed by Eobert Lee Crooks, one of the devisees mentioned in the will of the testator, and also one…
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