Estate of Bassett

The decedent, Kate W. Bassett, died on the eleventh day of November, 1923, in the county of Los Angeles, being a resident of said county and leaving estate therein. Shortly thereafter a will bearing date December 11, 1912, presumably an attested will, was duly admitted to probate and letters of administration with the will . annexed issued to Prank Bryson, public administrator of Los Angeles County. By said will the testatrix left her estate and property to one Nancy Willis. Within a year after the admission to probate of said will, Hattie B. Manion and Emma A. Jones, sisters of the decedent, instituted this proceeding to contest said will, to revoke the probate thereof and to probate a destroyed holographic will bearing date July 20, 1922, executed by the decedent as required by law, under the terms of which she devised all of her estate to her sister, Hattie B. Manion. The contestants alleged in their petition and their opposition to probate that said holographic will was the last will and testament of said decedent; prayed that said holographic will be admitted to probate; that the former order admitting the prior will to probate be annulled and vacated and that the letters of…