In re Estate of Miehle

On December 30, 1892, an instrument purporting to be the last will of George E. Miller was filed in this court: Code Civ. Proe., sec. 1298.

On January 9, 1893, George Ross, the person named in said instrument as the sole devisee thereunder and as the sole executor thereof, was, upon his application, by this court, appointed special administrator of the estate of said George E. Miller, who is alleged to have died on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1892, at Penang, Straits Settlements, and to have been’a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, state of California, at the time of his death. It is further alleged that the true name of the testator was Ernst Miehle.

The instrument filed as aforesaid bears date on the twenty-third day of August, 1892.

*100 Application having been made to the court for the admission of the alleged will to probate, the genuineness of the testator’s signature was proved on the hearing. It was further shown that the persons who appear to have signed the instrument as subscribing witnesses are the commander, purser and chief mate of the steamship “Lightning,” which plies between ports of the Chinese and Indian Seas, and that none of them can be…