Alden
Alden v. Superior Court of L.A. Cty.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Sloane, J.
Petitioner is asking for a writ of prohibition to restrain the superior court of the county of Los Angeles from taking further proceedings in the matter of the probate of the will of William Lowell Bundy, deceased, under an order granting a new trial.
Petition had theretofore been filed in said court for the probate of the last will of said decedent, wherein it was alleged that at the time of his death said decedent was a resident of the said county of Los Angeles.
The petitioner here, Lena Alden, thereupon filed opposition to the probate of said will denying that decedent was at the time of his death a resident of said county of Los Angeles, and averring that he was at all times a resident of the county of Sacramento, and setting up as further grounds of opposition that decedent was incompetent to make a will, and that the same was signed by reason of undue influence and duress. It was also alleged that decedent prior to the execution of the will had been judicially declared an incompetent person, and that such judgment of incompetency remained in full force and effect; that during all of said period one M. P. Barnes was the duly appointed, qualified, and acting guardian of the…