In Re Estate of Dutcher
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. William M. Hiatt, Edmund H. Hinshaw, and Howard R. Hinshaw, for Appellants.
1Opinion of the Court
A paper was admitted to probate as the last will of Jasper Dutcher. Thereafter certain heirs petitioned for revocation of the probate. They appeal from a judgment denying the petition. There is also an attempted appeal from an order denying a motion for a new trial, but such order was no longer appealable at the time the appeal was sought to be taken. (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 963, Amd. 1915, [Stats. 1915, p. 209].)
The contest was based on various grounds. One of these, and the only one here urged, is that the alleged will was not "subscribed at the end thereof by the testator." (Civ. Code, sec.…
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