Estate of Whitney

The appeal is from an order refusing to revoke the probate of an alleged holographic will. Although the contestant had included several grounds in her petition, all but one of these were abandoned at the hearing, so that the only question presented to the court below and to us on this appeal is whether or not the document was “entirely written, dated and signed by the testator himself.”

The purported will was written upon one sheet of what appears to be the office stationery of the Allied Petroleum Corporation, and except for the printed matter thereon was in the handwriting of and signed by the testator. Approximately one and one-quarter inches below the top of the sheet, and in large type, are printed or embossed the words “Allied Petroleum Corporation.” There is a margin of about two and a quarter inches on each side of these words, which occupy a space of about three and one-half inches in length. In the upper left-hand corner of the sheet are printed in much smaller type the words “Officers and Directors,” and directly under these words the names and titles of the president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer, while in the corresponding position in the right-hand upper…