Estate of Arms
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a decree of partial distribution of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. James C. Rives, Judge. Reversed. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, J.
Lucy R. Arms, widow of the decedent, appeals from a decree of partial distribution, embracing certain land held by decedent at his death.
The respondents are residuary legatees under the last will of the decedent, Harrison Arms. Arms died possessed of a large estate amounting to several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of property, situated in Illinois, where he then resided, and of certain lots on which was a dwelling-house, in Los Angeles County, California. The real property in California was of the value of about twenty thousand dollars. The respondents filed a petition for the distribution…
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