In re Estate of Davis
California Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Butte County granting letters of administration. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Fleet, J.
W. W. Davis died intestate in the county of Butte, in this state, being a resident of said county at the time of his death, and leaving estate therein.
Two applications were made for letters of administration upon his estate, one by the public administrator of said county and the other by B. F. Woolner, as the nominee of Alice A. Davis, the widow of said deceased.
The court granted the application of the public administrator, and denied that of Woolner, and the latter appeals.
At the hearing it appeared that on the seventh day of May, 1878, the said W. W. Davis and Alice A. Davis, his wife,…
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