In Re the Estate of Whittier

Subsequent to the admission to probate of a decedent’s will and the confirmation of appointment of the executor named therein, and during the early progress of administration upon the decedent’s estate, an acquaintance or friend of the deceased filed a petition in the cause offering for probate a later document of a purportedly testamentary nature, which named only the petitioner as legatee and bequeathed to her a portion of the decedent’s estate; petitioner’s prayer was that the order admitting the previously executed will to probate be annulled and set aside, that the later document be…