Estate of Morgan
California Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtWaste, C. J.
Ynez Morgan died leaving an instrument testamentary in character. After a contest, the probate court found it to be a valid holographic will, entirely written, dated, and signed by the testatrix, and made its order admitting the document to probate as the last will and testament of the decedent. From that order this appeal is taken.
The purported will, made ten months prior to the death of the decedent, was found in her writing-desk among her papers. No signature appears at the end of the document, which is entirely in the handwriting of the decedent. The name, Tnez Morgan, appears twice in…
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