Estate of Phillips

This is an appeal from a judgment admitting to probate the last will and testament of Fred Phillips, deceased. The proponent and respondent, Mrs. Kathryn Pfeiffer, and the contestant and appellant, George E. Mills, are strangers to the blood of the deceased. They will be referred to as the proponent and contestant.

On the tenth day of January, 1925, the proponent filed in the superior court, in and for the county of Los Angeles, her petition for the probate .of a will of decedent dated February 3, 1922. In addition to formal allegations, she alleged that Fred Phillips died on the fifteenth day…