In Re Estate of Cook

The deceased on April 25, 1915, being about to go to a hospital to have an operation performed, wrote and sent three letters—one to a brother, another to her sisters and a brother jointly, and a third to a friend who was her business agent. She died on May 26, 1915. A petition was filed in the superior court of Orange County for the probate of the several letters referred to, as constituting the last will of decedent, and as no person was nominated therein as executor, that letters of administration with the will annexed be issued to John H. Higgens, a brother mentioned in one of the…