In Re Estate of Dolbeer
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco denying a new trial of a contest of a will after probate. J. V. Coffey, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Further facts are stated in Estate of Dolbeer, 149 Cal. 227, [86 Pac. 695]. Darwin C. De Golia, Bart Burke, Charles J. Pence, and S. C. Denson, for Appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
This was a contest of the will of Bertha; M. Dolbeer, deceased, instituted after its admission to probate. The grounds of the contest were the mental incapacity of the deceased to execute a will and alleged undue influence exercised upon the mind of the testatrix by Etta Marion Warren, the principal beneficiary of the testatrix’s bounty. In Estate of Dolbeer, 149 Cal. 227, [86 Pac. 695], this court considered the contest of Adolph Schander before the probate of Bertha M. Dolbeer’s will. The present contest was instituted by another maternal uncle of Bertha M. Dolbeer, Horatio Schander. It was…
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