Estate of Jones
California Supreme Court
APPEALS from an order of the Superior Court of Merced County directing the special administrator of the estate of a deceased person to pay counsel fees and costs incurred by an executor in unsuccessfully resisting a contest to revoke the probate of the alleged will of the decedent, and from orders settling, respectively, the first and final accounts of the executor. E. N. Rector, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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APPEALS from an order of the Superior Court of Merced County directing the special administrator of the estate of a deceased person to pay counsel fees and costs incurred by an executor in unsuccessfully resisting a contest to revoke the probate of the alleged will of the decedent, and from orders settling, respectively, the first and final accounts of the executor. E. N. Rector, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. F. G. Ostrander, J. J. Griffin, and Henry Brickley, for Appellants.
1Opinion of the CourtSloss, J.
The record presents appeals from three orders made in the probate proceedings in the matter of the estate of William Jones, deceased. A paper had been admitted to probate as the will of said decedent, and letters testamentary thereon issued to Charles G. Jones, the respondent. A contest after probate had been instituted by Lester William Jones, and a trial before a jury had resulted in an order revoking the probate. Charles G. Jones appealed from the order of revocation and from an order denying his motion for a new trial. This court has, on August 27, 1913, the present appeals being then…
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