Estate of Perkins

The decedent, Clara Anna Perkins, a widow, whose will is the subject of contest in this proceeding, died on the twenty-sixth day of October, 1922, at Monrovia, California, at the age of about fifty-six years. She left an estate, consisting of real and personal property, appraised, approximately, at $57,000. She left surviving' her a sister, Mattie Belle Fink, and two brothers, Benjamin M. Bentley, .who had been an invalid for some twenty years, and Frank Bentley. Mattie Belle Fink and Benjamin M. Bentley are the only contestants. They for many years lived in the city of Des Moines, Iowa. The…