Estate of Fay
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
COOPER, C.
This is an appeal from an order refusing to admit to probate an instrument purporting to be the holographic will of deceased.
The instrument was entirely in the handwriting of deceased, and bore date “May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.” It is not claimed that the deceased was not of sound mind, nor that the purported will was not his free act and deed. In the instrument the deceased made provision for his son Luke Fay, who was born in 1861; for his son John Fay, who was born about 1865; and for his daughter, Mary Montealegre, who was married to Carlos F. Montealegre…
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