Estate of Green

This is an application by Julia Green, the widow of William Arthur Green, deceased, to have a homestead set apart by the court for her use.

The "petition recites that letters testamentary were issued out of this court on December 7, 1886, to R. H. Lloyd, one of the executors named in the last will of decedent, who immediately entered upon the discharge of his duties as such executor, and has ever since continued to act in that capacity; that the executor has published notice to creditors according to order of the court; that he has made and returned herein the inventory and appraisement as required by the statute; that it appears by the said inventory and appraisement that the whole estate of the decedent is about $270,000, yielding a monthly income of about $1,200 net; that the executor claims the whole estate to be separate property of decedent, but as to this the applicant has no information other' than the statement of the said executor; that the petitioner is the surviving wife of the decedent, and that his family consisted and consists of herself alone, who was, at the date of the petition, temporarily residing in England (but who has since *447 returned to California, and…