Estate v. Wikman
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Butte County denying the petition of appellant for appointment as executrix and from an order denying a new trial. John C. Gray, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMcFARLAND, J.
This above-named Charles A. Wikman, deceased, was in his lifetime a resident of Butte County, California, and died there on or about the first day of November, 1904, leaving a will which had been duly executed on the twentieth day of May, 1904. On November 29, 1904, Solomon Pettit, who was public administrator of Butte County, filed a petition for the probate of the will and for letters testamentary with the will annexed; and a few days later Mary Heeney filed a petition praying that letters testamentary in the estate be granted to her. The petition of the public administrator is based on the…
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