In re Bullard's Estate

Citations

• 3 Cal. Unrep. 688
• 31 P. 1119
• 1892 Cal. LEXIS 1071

Syllabus

<p>Probate Practice—Filing Additional Findings.—Code of Civil Procedure, section 1704, provides that all orders and decrees of the court, or the judge thereof, in probate proceedings, “must be entered at length in the minute-book of the court.” Held, that after an order was entered from which- an appeal was taken, and while it was pending, the trial court had no power to make any new or further findings or decree in regard to the matters involved.1</p> <p>Probate Practice.—Findings of Facts will not be Set Aside because they are intermixed with statements of evidence, argument, and conclusions of law.</p> <p>Probate Practice.—The Sufficiency of a Bill of Contest in a probate proceeding will not be considered by the supreme court when it is raised for the first time on appeal.</p>