Estate of Mumford

This is an appeal from an order admitting to probate the foreign will of the deceased and granting letters of administration with the will annexed.

There is no dispute about the facts. Abel Stearns died testate in the county of Los Angeles in 1871, leaving to his widow by his will large property including certain real estate in Los Angeles County. The widow later married one Robert Baker, who predeceased her. Mrs. Baker died in this state, in Los Angeles County, in 1912, leaving surviving her neither husband, ascendants, nor descendants, and leaving a large estate in said county, including what is known as the Laguna Rancho, which had been devised and bequeathed to her by her first husband, Abel Stearns. This Laguna Rancho Mrs. Baber had contracted to sell in her lifetime, and in October, 1912, the Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles, as administrator of her estate and in execution of her contract, conveyed the same to the purchaser, taking in part payment therefor a certain promissory note and mortgage further herein referred to. When Abel Stearns died he left surviving him as heirs at law besides his widow certain brothers and sisters. Five of these left issue…