In re Estate of Skerrett

Citations

• 67 Cal. 585
• 8 P. 181
• 1885 Cal. LEXIS 700

Syllabus

<p>„ Will—Deed of Gift.—An instrument purporting to be a deed of gift, but inoperative for want of delivery, cannot, in the absence of proper evidence that a testamentary disposition was intended, be admitted to probate as a will.</p> <p>Id. — Cebtaei IbstbujUeets Constbued as a Will__Two instruments in the handwriting of the deceased, attached together, and found among his papers, one being in the form of a letter signed by him and addressed to his sister, and the other purporting to he a copy of a deed of gift from the former to the latter, and it appearing on the face of the letter that the property described in the deed was intended by the deceased as a provision for the sister after his death, held, to be a will, and admissible to probate.</p>