In Re Chongas' Estate

Action by Paul C. Porcker contesting the admission to probate of the last will and testament of Nick Chongas, deceased. There is no dispute as to most of the facts. On March 1, 1946, Nick Chongas, a resident of Ogden, Weber County, Utah, executed a will in which he bequeathed all his property, then consisting of personalty worth about $24,000, to his half-brother, Paul C. Porcker, the contestant. Ten days later the testator was committed to the Utah State Mental Hospital at Provo by the district court in Salt Lake County upon the affidavit of Porcker that his brother was insane. Later the…