Estate of King

Cornelius King, aged eighty-five years and upward, unmarried and childless, died on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1894, at Napa City, Napa county, California, in the asylum for the insane, to which institution he had been committed from the city and county of San Francisco, of which he was and had been for many years a resident, and in which he left an estate mainly in cash, money deposited in savings banks to the amount of upward of $200,000. He left a will dated April 14, 1885, in possession of one J. B. Fargo, a copy of which will is here inserted.

The will of Cornelius King is as follows:

*13 August 7, 1894, a petition was filed in this court by said J. B. Fargo, asking for the probate of this will, and for the issuance to him of letters of administration with the Avill annexed, in accordance with a request proceeding from the executors named therein. For the better illustration of the issues before the court the request signed and acknowledged by the said executors is here reproduced:

“Now come James King and Daniel King, nephews and heirs at law of Cornelius King, deceased, and named in the will of said deceased as executors of the will of said deceased, and represent and…