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Estate of Dupont

California Court of Appeal

Decided August 25, 1943No. Civ. 12431PublishedCited by 49 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DOOLING, J. pro tem.

This is an appeal from a judgment refusing probate of an alleged will of Hilda Susanna Dupont, upon a finding of the court that the deceased was not of sound and disposing mind at the time the instrument was executed.

The proffered instrument was executed by the decedent on December 19, 1940. At that time the decedent was seventy-seven years of age and confined to her bed in a sanitarium, extremely weakened and seriously afflicted by the disease which caused her death on January 3, 1941.

Decedent, a native of Sweden, came to California as a young woman and lived during the…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Peterson v. LoganCalifornia Supreme Court · 1940
  2. Estate of PerkinsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1925
  3. People v. OtteyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1936
  4. People v. MendezCalifornia Supreme Court · 1924
  5. Estate of ChevallierCalifornia Supreme Court · 1911

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3Cited by49 opinions

  1. Baird v. KoernerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1960
  2. People v. GionisCalifornia Supreme Court · 1995
  3. Gantner v. GantnerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1952
  4. People v. CarlucciCalifornia Supreme Court · 1979
  5. Stormon v. WeissNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1954

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