Estate of Ross

This is an action to revoke the prohate of the will and codicils thereto of deceased, upon the grounds that the codicils in question were procured through the undue influence of Charles C. Ross and Sarah E. Ross, that the codicils in question were procured through the fraud of Charles C. Ross and Sarah E. Ross, and that the deceased was of unsound mind at the time of the execution of the codicils in question. A jury was impaneled to try the case.

It appears that on the fourteenth day of April, 1930, the deceased executed the last of three codicils to her will. At that time she was about seventy years of age. She died on the twenty-eighth day of May, 1930, at the home of her son Charles C. Ross and Sarah E. Ross, his wife, proponents and appellants herein. The deceased had lived in and near La Habra for approximately twenty-three years next preceding her death, and for about six months immediately prior to her death she had resided with her son Charles C. Ross and his wife. William H. Ross, one of the contestants, is also a son of the deceased. Dorothy Yvonne Louise Wilson, the other contestant, is a granddaughter of the deceased, the child of a deceased daughter. Up to the time…