Goodrich v. Waller

Defendant Dorris Waller appeals from a decree which set aside and canceled certain assignments from plaintiffs to her of their respective interests in the estate of her uncle, Grover Halstead, deceased.

Halstead had moved to California over 40 years ago and died there, intestate, on October 29, 1944. He was a bachelor and left surviving him the two plaintiffs, who were his sisters, and the five children of a deceased brother, one of whom is the defendant. The record indicates that for many years a rather close and affectionate relationship had existed between defendant and her uncle. They had…