In re the Probate of the Will of Woodward

Varnum, S.

A contestant of the will and a beneficiary thereunder makes separate applications for orders requiring the temporary administrator, a trust company, to give petitioners an inspection of a prior will of the decedent in its possession. Although, under section 2472 of the Code of Civil Procedure, this court is given jurisdiction to direct and control the conduct of executors and administrators, yet this power is expressly limited by the pointed direction that “ this jurisdiction must he exercised in the cases and in the manner prescribed by statute.” The powers conferred by…