Estate of Patterson
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco refusing to admit a will to probate as a destroyed will. J. V. Coffey, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, J.
This is an appeal from an order refusing to admit a will to probate as a destroyed will.
Catherine Patterson executed a will in December, 1904. It was prepared for her by her attorney, George A. Connolly, and was duly attested by him and by one Mary McFaul. It was then given by the testatrix into the custody of Connolly for safe keeping and was by him kept in his office in the Parrott building in San Francisco until April 18, 1906, when it was destroyed by fire in the great conflagration in that city following the earthquake of that date. The testatrix died on December 27, 1906. She had not…
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