Estate of Casassa

Anna Casassa died testate at San Francisco on the fourteenth day of December, 1925. Her will was admitted to probate and later one of her sons, Frank A., filed a petition asking that the probate be revoked. Pie named his brothers, Armand and Louis and his sister Louise as defendants and they appeared and filed answers. A trial was had in the lower court before the court sitting with a jury. After the contestant had put in his case the proponents made a motion for a nonsuit. The motion was granted and the contestant has appealed.

As something is said in the briefs concerning unnatural wills it should be noted at this time that the decedent by her will transferred all her property to her children. The contestant was given $2,000, another son was given $5,000, still another son was given $1,000, and the remaining portion was divided into four parts, one-fourth given to each of the four remaining children. Not a dollar was given to any person, natural or artificial, outside of the members of the family. The contestant concedes that the brother who received only $1,000 had been generously remembered in the will of the father, who died only two years before. The son who received $5,000…