Estate of Fletcher

This is an appeal from a judgment denying probate of a purported will.

Juliana Matilda Fletcher died June 13, 1955. Thereafter appellants filed in the superior court a purported will of decedent dated October 6, 1951, together with a petition for probate thereof.

The alleged will was a typewritten document purportedly bearing the signatures of the testatrix and two witnesses, the latter two signatures following a formal attestation clause.

Respondent filed a petition for contest of the will before probate and for grounds of contest alleged that at the time of the execution of the document the…