Estate of Yale

THE COURT.

Charles Yale died in the county of Los Angeles on September 6, 1927, at the age of eighty-one and leaving an estate of approximately $200,000. Two days later William E. Briggs, as the executor named therein, filed with the county clerk documents purporting to be the will of the decedent, dated August 21, 1927, and a codicil thereto dated September 3, 1927. On September 27, 1927, an order was made admitting the will and codicil to probate and letters testamentary were thereupon issued. By the terms of the will the sum of $100 each was bequeathed to a brother and certain nephews and…