Estate of Sheid

This is an appeal by the contestants, claiming to be heirs of said deceased, from an order and decree of distribution distributing the whole of the residue of said estate to respondent Mary T. Wall, and also from an order denying the motion of said contestants for a new trial in said matter.

W. T. Sheid died intestate March 9, 1896, in San Luis Obispo county, leaving an estate therein consisting of real and personal property. One Laeefield was appointed administrator of said estate March 25, 1896, and on May 2, 1896, notice to creditors was given. April 3, 1897, said administrator filed his final account, which was thereafter on April 15, 1897, settled and allowed. On April 5, 1897, respondent Mary T. Wall, claiming to he the only child and sole heir at law of deceased, filed an application for distribution of said estate. Appellants contested her heirship and right to distribution, and on September 22, 1897, a decree was made and entered distributing said estate to said petitioner Mary T. Wall. An appeal was taken from such decree of distribution, and this court held that, as the petition for distribution was Sled before the settlement of the final account, and after the filing…