Legal Opinion
In Re Estate of Hall
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 25, 1971No. Administration 342-69PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN H. PRATT, District Judge.
This is an action filed by the Navy Relief Society to have a holographic writing of decedent, Francesca Ross Hall, admitted to probate as her last will and testament. Respondents herein are the two attorneys originally appointed as administrators of Miss Hall’s estate,, who represent decedent’s two sisters, the only heirs at law. Miss Hall had spent the last thirty years of her life as an in mate of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and at the time of her death in 1968 it was assumed that she had died intestate. In the course of administering the estate,…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Creek v. LaskiMichigan Supreme Court · 1929
- Hamlet v. HamletSupreme Court of Virginia · 1945
- Association of Survivors of Seventh Georgia Regiment v. LarnerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1925
- Ex Parte CardozoCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1919
- Porter v. BallouMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
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3Cited by5 opinions
- In Re Estate of Francesca Hall, Deceased. Navy Relief Society v. Marion Edwyn Harrison and Charles R. HooverCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
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