In re the Estate of Donahue

By the Court, Sawyer, C. J. :

James Donahue died in Santa Clara County on the 17th of August, 1862, leaving a surviving wife, Mary A. Donahue, and four infant children, Peter Donahue, Margaret Donahue, Mary Jane Donahue, and William E. Donahue. He left a will, by which, after making sundry bequests, he devised one third of all the residue of his estate, real and personal, to his said wife, and the remaining two thirds to his said children. On the 6th of August, 1864, one of said children, then an iufant, William E. Donahue, died in said county, in the sixth year of his age; and on the 1st of…