Reid v. Wooster

A nuncupative will must be proved by the oaths of three competent witnesses who were present at the making thereof; and the circumstances of the testamentary disposition must be reduced to writing within thirty days after the making of the same. Civil Code (1910), §§ 3925, 3926. Where three persons appeared before a magistrate and made oath that a certain decedent, in the time of his last sickness, called upon them to bear witness that the declarations he was about to speak were his will (or words to that effect), and two of them deposed that the decedent disposed of his entire estate in…