Estate of Wear

20 Cal.2d 124 (1942)

Estate of KATIE RICHARDS WEAR, Deceased. THEODORE J. MILLER et al., Respondents,

v.

EDWARD ROLKIN, as Executor, etc., Proponent; ARLINE M. ROLKIN, as Executrix, etc., et al. (Substituted Proponents), Appellants.

S. F. No. 16301.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

Apr. 2, 1942.

Frank J. Mahoney for Appellants.

James M. Hanley and Herbert Chamberlin for Respondents.

TRAYNOR, J.

Mrs. Katie Richards Wear owned certain real property in Sonoma County encumbered by deeds of trust securing promissory notes for $27,800 and by a mortgage securing a note for $3,525. In 1920 she entered…