Hayes v. First Nat. Bank of Fairbanks

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

Hayes appeals from an order of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, sit ting as the appellate tribunal from the local probate court, holding that a purported will of one Louis D. Colbert, dated October 22, 1946, was not executed by him when he was of the sound and disposing mind required by the Alaska statute. 3 A.C.L.A. § 59-1-2: “Every person of twenty-one y.ears of age and upwards, of sound mind, may by last will devise all his or her property * * * *

On May 27, 1947, in a proceeding in “The Estate of Louis D. Colbert” before an Alaska Commissioner, sitting as…