Estate of Donahue
Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco
The opinion of the court in this matter was rendered upon two demurrers (considered together) to an amended petition for a partial distribution of the estate. The petition; was presented by the widow of the decedent, asking to have her community rights in the property assigned and distributed to her by way of partial distribution.
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The opinion of the court in this matter was rendered upon two demurrers (considered together) to an amended petition for a partial distribution of the estate. The petition; was presented by the widow of the decedent, asking to have her community rights in the property assigned and distributed to her by way of partial distribution. The following quotations are made from the petition in order to give the exact language of certain important' allegations referred to in the opinion of the court: 1. As to the motive and object of the petition—“That she (petitioner) is desirous of having her share…
1Opinion of the CourtCoffey, J.
Annie Donahue, widow of Peter Donahue, deceased, on the fifth day of February, 1887, filed her amended petition in this court, praying for a partial distribution to her of one-half of all of certain property described in said petition claimed by her to be community property. To this petition, on the eleventh day of February, were interposed two separate demurrers on behalf severally of J. Mervyn Donahue, and Mrs. Mary Ellen Yon Schroeder, devisees named in the last will of said Peter Donahue, deceased.
GEOUNDS OF THE DEMUBBEES.
The points of both demurrers are the same: 1. The insufficiency of…
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