In re the Estate of Newell

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

FR.EAR, J.

On June 3, 1868, the decedent executed an unattested will wholly in his own handwriting. On September 5, 1888, he died in San Francisco,- California, being then domiciled there. On September 28, 1883, the will was admitted to probate in the Superior Court, Department 9, for the city and county of *81San Francisco, a court of record of general probate jurisdiction. On April 12, 1895, tire petitioner herein applied to a Circuit Judge of the First Circuit for admission of the will to probate here upon an authenticated copy of the record of the probate court of San…