Miller v. California Trust Co.

DESMOND, J., pro tem.

The California Trust Company is executor of the will and estate of Russell H. Ballard, deceased, and as such appeals from a judgment awarded in a jury-waived trial, to Carrie Borden Miller, as executrix, of the estate of John B. Miller. It is claimed that the court erred in ruling upon matters of law incidental to the questions involved; also, that certain findings are not supported by the evidence before the court.

Messrs. Ballard and Miller were closely associated in business for many years, both being officers of one of the major industrial corporations of southern…