Estate of Waltz

M. Craig Medoff for Contestant and Appellant.

Appeal from an order granting letters of administration to respondent and denying letters of administration to appellant.

The file below discloses that William Waltz died intestate in the County of Los Angeles on July 28, 1963. He left surviving him his wife, Hildegard Lindstedt Waltz, who had been adjudged to be mentally incompetent and who was confined as a mentally incompetent person in the Veterans Administration Hospital at American Lake in the State of Washington.

On July 30, 1963, the respondent was appointed special administrator of the estate of William. On August 23, 1963, the respondent was appointed as the guardian of the person and estate of Hildegard. On September 12, 1963, the respondent filed his petition, as guardian of Hildegard, seeking appointment as the administrator of the estate of William. Hearing on this petition was set for October 8, 1963.

In the petition for special letters of administration the respondent had given the names of Fred Waltz, Laura Waltz, Margaret Shendel, Fern Mosgrove and Harold Moore, and had listed them as adult cousins and had given their addresses…