Case Name: ESTATE OF MERCEDES CAMETO
Court: Probate Court of the City and County of San Francisco
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1875
Citations: 1 Myrick 75
Docket Number: No. 6473
Parties: ESTATE OF MERCEDES CAMETO.
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: 75–75

Head Matter:
ESTATE OF MERCEDES CAMETO.
No. 6473
1875.
Will.—Revocation of probate.—Attorney appointed by the Court to represent absent or minor heirs has no right as such to institute proceeding for revocation of probate. To obtain a standing in Court, for such a purpose, a general guardian should be appointed.
Notice defective.—Where the notice on probate is defective, it is the duty of the Court on attention being called to the defect, to set aside all proceedings based on such notice.
Construing sections, C. C. P., 1303-4; 1327, 1718.
Stuart S. Wright and B. Y. JHayne, for petitioners.
G. W. Tyler, contra.

Opinion:
On the hearing of the application for the probate of the will of deceased, attorneys were appointed by the Court, under Sec. 1718, C. C. P., to represent certain minors interested in the estate as heirs at law, and they acted in that capacity. Subsequently, as such appointees, they filed a petition for revocation of the probate of the will, to which objection was made that they had no authority.
By the Court:
An attorney appointed by the Court under Sec. 1718, has no authority to institute proceedings for revocation of the probate of the will. He or some other person must first be appointed general guardian or guardian ad litem under Secs. 372-3, and then he may proceed and file the petition. Sec. 1718 authorizes the Court to appoint an attorney for minors and absentees only after some other person has instituted proceedings. The petition is dismissed.
In this case, the affidavit of publication of notice for probate of the will shows that the publication was defective. The attention of the Court having been now called to the matter, it is ordered that the order admitting the will to probate, and all subsequent proceedings, be vacated and set aside, and that proceedings for the probate of the will be commenced de novo, from and after the filing of the petition.