State Ex Rel. Vaughn v. Superior Court

— This case is before us on an original application for a writ of certiorari to review a decision of the lower court denying the right to administer upon the estate of David Vaughn, deceased.

Vaughn died in Walla Walla county on December 8, 1924. On December 30, 1924, a petition was filed on behalf of H. H. Marshall for the probate of the purported will of the decedent, which will was annexed to the petition as an exhibit, wherein the petitioner was named as executor thereof, to serve without bond, and without the intervention of the court. On the same day, and within the forty days provided…