Legal Opinion
Brown v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 9, 1933No. 6956PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MACK, Circuit Judge.
Decedent entered the army in June, 1918; in September he died in France. His $10,000 war risk insurance policy named his estate as beneficiary.
In 1926, in the superior court of Inyo county, Cal., Brown, no relation to decedent, petitioned for probate of the latter’s will. The petition alleged decedent had been a resident of Inyo county, and that by a nuncupa-tive will uttered in February, 1918, reduced to writing by a witness thereof in November, 1926, he had left “all of his property and money,” which was “of the value of not exceeding $100,” to Brown and the latter’s…
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