In re Bronsons Estate

On August 11, 1930, there was filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court for King county what purported to be the last will of Ira Bronson, deceased, together with a petition signed and verified by Robert Eliot Bronson asking that that will be probated. At the same time there was filed in the office of the clerk what purported to be a codicil, executed by Mr. Bronson some three years after his will was executed, which codicil by its terms vacated and eliminated bequests in the will to Mr. Bronsons mother of $50 a month for life and to his two sisters of $5,000 each to be paid in cash. After the filing of the will, the codicil and the petition, and on the same day, the proponent procured to be entered by the court a decree in the usual form admitting the will to probate, no mention whatever being made of the codicil in the decree. On the same day there was filed in the clerks office a petition setting up that Ira Bronson died in the city of Long Beach, Cal., on the 16th day of June, 1930, that the decedent had executed a codicil to his will dated February 22, 1930, which codicil was signed by Walter W. Horne and Marjorie Lee Horne as subscribing witnesses, and that such witnesses were residents of Long Beach, Cal. The petition asked for an order to take the testimony of the subscribing witnesses by deposition and on the same day