Watts v. Choate

This is an appeal from an order admitting to probate a warranty deed, a bill of sale and a letter as the holographic will of deceased.

John H. Watts, a long-time resident of Ravalli county, Montana, lost his wife in 1935 and thereafter lived alone on a 40-acre farm owned by him and located about 5 miles from Hamilton where, on April 14, 1943, he died at the age of 87 years leaving surviving him as his heirs, a sister, Mrs. Ida Choate, residing in the state of Oklahoma, a brother, James Watts, residing in the state of California, and the children of deceased sisters and of a deceased brother,…