Estate of Sack

This is an appeal from an order denying petition for probate of a letter offered as a codicil to a will. The trial court held that the letter was not written with testamentary intent and was not intended as a codicil to the will.

Edwin L. Sack died December 14, 1945, leaving a holographic will dated June 16, 1931, in which he left two rings to a friend, Dr. Eeiter, and the rest of his estate to his sister, Ida Sack, “without any reservation,” and designated the San Francisco Bank as executor and administrator. Upon petition of the bank this will was admitted to probate.

Thereafter the bank…