Knouse v. Hancken

made her last will on May 11, 1943, Dorothea Thomas passed on to her reward on February 18, 1945. One John Hancken, named the sole devisee and executor of decedent, promptly offered the instrument for probate and it was admitted March 13, 1945. While no contest was filed in the form of written grounds of opposition before probate (Prob. Code, § 370) or by filing a petition for that purpose within six months after the will was admitted to probate (§ 380), yet appellants appeared at the hearing for probate and as amici curiae cross-examined the witnesses. Thereafter they attempted to become…