WILL OH A PETTICOAT

Evening Star, Issue 19064, 6 October 1925, Page 12

WILL OH A PETTICOAT

AMELMCAX PROBATE DISPUTE. ’When Mr George W. Hazeltine, a wealthy eccentric recluse, wrote his will on the hem or a woman's petticoat, he started a flurry of legal skirmishes in which a suit filed in Superior Court by his attorneys was hut another development. The petticoat will, written while Mr Hazeltine was dying in a Los Angeles hospital, left 10.U00 dollars each to the hospital proprietor and a nurse. The remainder of the 500,000 dollars' estate was left to a. grand-niece. After the petticoat, was filed for probate the Young Women's Christian Association brought a suit to have the will sot aside. Then Pomona. College brought a.similar suit, and the action by Mr Jlazcltine's attorneys likewise seeks the substitution of a previous will for flic petticoat. In all the suits the charge is that -Mr Hazeltine was not in full possession of his faculties when he penned upon the petticoat his desire to bequeath the estate to his grand-niece and those who attended him in ins last illness. The previous will left most of the 5(111,(10(1 dollars to his attorneys and some of it to the Young Women's Christian Association. ’Pomona College, and other institutions.