Estate of Dole v. Dole

COOPER, C.

This is an appeal from a judgment of non-suit dismissing the contest of the will of deceased. The facts. are substantially as follows: In July, 1900, deceased was of the age of about eighty-three years, and the owner of an estate of the value of some eighteen thousand dollars. He then resided, and had for many years resided, in Hayward, Alameda County, with Mary A. Dole, the widow of his deceased brother, who had taken care of him and furnished him a home. He had no wife nor child nor grandchild. He made his last will and testament and therein bequeathed to his nieces, Lizzie Dole,…