Estate of Braue

Contestants appeal from an order admitting a witnessed will to probate over their objection that it had not been properly executed as required by section 50 of the Probate Code. The other grounds of contest were dismissed at the trial.

Proponent is the wife of decedent, whom he married on February 20, 1936. The questioned document is dated April 8, 1936. Contestants are the sister of decedent, and one of his two daughters by a previous marriage. By the will he left his sister and each of the daughters $1, leaving the balance of the estate to his wife. The petition for probate alleged that the…