Estate of McDole
California Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtSeawell, J.
Appeal from a decree of distribution. By his last will and testament the decedent, William M. Mc Dole, bequeathed the residue of Ms estate to “the Stubble-field Home for the Aged, at Walla Walla, Washington”. Upon objections filed to the executor’s petition for distribution by decedent’s three brothers, his sister and three nieces, who, with a brother of decedent not joining in the objections, are his heirs at law, the court found, in their favor, that said provision was invalid for the reason that the Stubblefield Home for the Aged was not a “person, corporation or society authorized by the…
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