In re Estate of Newman
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Contra Costa County granting letters of administration and from an order denying a new trial of a contest for such letters. Joseph P. Jones, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
This is a contest for letters of administration. There were three petitioners: the public administrator, L. M. Cutting, a cousin of the deceased, and Rose A. Newman, widow of deceased. Letters were granted to the widow and Cutting appeals.
Rose A. Newman and the deceased intermarried in New Hampshire, November, 1856. He was then nineteen years of age and she was sixteen. Within a very short time after the marriage he came with his father to California. There was, however, no desertion, as the parties continued to correspond at least up to 1862, recognizing in all their letters their…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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