Estate of Davis
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco distributing the estate of a deceased person. J. V. Coffey, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. William T. Baggett, F. H. Gould, Horace W. Philbrook, and W. J. Bartnett, for Appellants. Campbell, Metson & Campbell, and Thomas H. Breeze, for Respondents.
1Opinion of the CourtSloss, J.
Appeal from, decree of settlement of final account and final distribution.
Jacob Z. Davis died on October 28, 1896. On November 16, 1896, Lizzie Muir and Belle Curtis presented to the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco a paper purporting to be the holographic will of said Davis and filed a petition praying for its admission to probate. The document bore date October 1, 1896, and by its terms purported to give and bequeath all of Davis’s property to the petitioners, Lizzie Muir and Belle Curtis. On the filing of the petition, the clerk fixed Monday, the thirtieth day of…
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