Case Name: ESTATE OF JAMES DEVOE
Court: Probate Court of the City and County of San Francisco
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1872
Citations: 1 Myrick 6
Docket Number: No. 3399
Parties: ESTATE OF JAMES DEVOE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of Cases in the Probate Court of the City and County of San Francisco, from January 1, 1872, to December 31, 1879, Milton H. Myrick, Probate Judge
Volume: 1
Pages: 6–7

Head Matter:
ESTATE OF JAMES DEVOE.
No. 3399
1872.
Revocation of Pbobate—Attobney appointed by the Coubt cannot waive minor’s right to apply for revocation of the probate of a will.
Appearance by such attorney upon probate does not bind the minor in the premises.
Construing sections, C. C. P., 1307, 1333, 1718.
McAllisters & Bergin, for executor.
McCullough & Boyd, for guardian.

Opinion:
The testator left him surviving a wife, an infant son, and a son by a former wife. The elder son is executor. Upon the hearing of the probate of the will an attorney was appointed by the Court to represent the infant son. The wife and the attorney for the infant son filed a contest. The con test was withdrawn by stipulation, and the wife and the attorney consented that the will should be admitted; and the Court admitted the will. Within a year a general guardian was appointed for the infant, who filed a contest and a petition to revoke the probate. The elder son objected to' the. petition.
Held, an attorney appointed by the Court cannot waive any right of his ward: the infant was not bound by the acts of the attorney. Objection overruled.