In re Estate of Cotter
California Supreme Court
Appeal from an order appointing respondent, and refusing to appoint appellant, administrator, in the Probate. Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Myrick, J. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Department No. 1, Ross, J.:
Both parties to the controversy claim the right to administer the estate of Henry B. Cotter, deceased. Which has the better right, is the question to be determined.
Cotter died intestate, in the State of Missouri, on the 4th of April, 1878, being, at the time of his death, a resident of that State, and leaving surviving him a wife and two minor children, his sole heirs-at-law. He left in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, fourteen thousand dollars’ worth of personal property. On the 20th day of May, 1878, the widow filed in the Probate Court…
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