Estate of King

Cornelius King, aged eighty-five years and upward, unmarried and childless, died on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1894, at Napa City, Napa county, California, in the asylum for the insane, to which institution he had been committed from the city and county of San Francisco, of which he was and had been for many years a resident, and in which he left an estate mainly in cash, money deposited in savings banks to the amount of upward of $200,000. He left a will dated April 14, 1885, in possession of one J. B. Fargo, a copy of which will is here inserted.

The will of Cornelius King is as follows:

“I…