Estate of Blalock

Lillian Grace Blalock, deceased, left a purported holographic will which was admitted to probate, the respondent, Florence Dorothy Driggs, a niece of the testatrix, named in the will, being appointed administratrix with the will annexed.

The will in controversy, written upon two sheets of lined paper apparently torn from a small memorandum book, is as follows:

Shortly before the expiration of the six-months’ period within which a contest of a will after its probate may be filed (Prob. Code, § 380), the husband of decedent filed a contest upon the sole ground “That said purported will was not at…