IN RE VARNUM'S ESTATE

No. 18793.

357 P.2d 370 (1960)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Lulu Lee VARNUM, Deceased. Hope WOODWARD and Max V. Woodward, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Martha WITT, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado, In Department.

Rehearing Denied December 23, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas K. Hudson, Alice Loveland, Denver, for plaintiffs in error.

David J. Clarke, Wagner & Wyers, Denver, for defendant in error.


DAY, Justice.

This action, commenced in the county court and tried de novo in the district court on appeal, involves an attempt to establish the existence and contents of a purported lost will. The defendant in error, a friend of the deceased, offered the alleged lost will for probate. The caveators—plaintiffs in error here—were related to the decedent as niece and nephew of the half blood. To the action of the court admitting the will to probate after...

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