Estate of Glassford

The public administrator appeals from a judgment dismissing his petition for probate of decedent’s will and codicil and for letters of administration with will annexed.

The decedent, Grace Glassford, a widow, was for many years a resident of and domiciled in New York City. In October, 1948, she came west “thinking,’’ as she later stated, that she would remain a year. She arrived in Denver, Colorado, the latter part of October, living there at a hotel until the middle of January, 1949, when she came to Los Angeles. She stayed two weeks at the Biltmor'e Hotel; a month at the Wm. Penn Hotel; and slightly less than two months at the DuBarry Apartment Hotel. In registering at each hotel she gave her address as the Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, and at each she took her room on a day-rate basis. During her stay at the DuBarry she spent ten days at the California Lutheran Hospital. Finally, she spent 22 days at the Shatto Sanitarium, where she died on May 21, 1949.

Upon her arrival here decedent opened a checking account at a bank near her hotel. When she moved to the DuBarry she closed that account and opened another at a branch of the same bank in the vicinity of the DuBarry, giving…