O'Brien

On October 14, 1936, Maude Lillian O’Brien, a resident of the state of Michigan, filed in this court her verified bill of complaint in equity against Blanche C. Markham individually and as executrix of the estate of William F. Markham, deceased, Harlan G. Palmer, Ethelyn Hun-kins Palmer, Harlan. Guyan Palmer, Jr., Byron Hunkins Palmer, Ralph Judson Palmer, Margaret Dora Palmer, Ben S. Sprague, and Edward Jenkens, all residents of the state of California, and certain corporations organized and existing under the laws of the state of California, as defendants.

She alleges substantially that she, her brother Leigh H. Markham, also residing in Michigan, and another brother now deceased, were the three children born of the marriage of William F. Markham and Carrie A. Shepard which occurred in 1872; that shortly after her mother’s death in 1910 her father married Carrie B. Short-man, who is now the widow of her father, he having died April 30, 1930, a resident of Los Angeles county, Cal.; that no children were born of the last marriage; that on March 4, 1930, her father executed a will which on May 22, 1930, was, upon.the petition of his widow and her attorney, Harlan G. Palmer,…