Estate of Baxter

This in an appeal by Howard Bives from an order denying his petition for a partial distribu tion to him as a legatee under the will of Mary H. Baxter, deceased.

The will, under which appellant claims a portion of the decedent’s estate, was made August 13, 1927. The maker thereof was a resident of Yuma County. She died December 20, 1928. In her will she nominated Hugo B. Farmer as executor and devised to him all of her property, real, personal and mixed, wheresoever situate (except a ranch property and appurtenances, devised and bequeathed by her to her niece Frances W. Hardy and her husband),…