Legal Opinion

Kelsey v. Griffith

California Supreme Court

Decided April 14, 1899No. L. A. No. 473PublishedCited by 10 opinions

APPEAL from an 'order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County appointing an administrator with the will annexed, and ■denying letters of administration to the public administrator. W. H. Clark, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

GRAY, C.

William Engle died in the county of Riverside, state of California. At the time of Ms death he was a resident of the territory of Arizona, and had seven hundred 'and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-six cents deposited in a Los Angeles savings bank, and also held a note for eight thousand five hundred dollars, secured by a mortgage on real property situated in the city and county of Los Angeles. The deceased left a will in which he made C. S. Engle, a resident of Chicago, Illinois, his sole devisee, and appointed him sole executor of the will.

This will was duly admitted to probate in…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. In re Estate of BerginCalifornia Supreme Court · 1893

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Brundage v. Union Trust Co.California Supreme Court · 1904
  2. Estate of SayersCalifornia Supreme Court · 1928
  3. Estate of HerriottCalifornia Supreme Court · 1933
  4. In Re the Estate of CoanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1901
  5. In Re the Estate of MeierCalifornia Supreme Court · 1913

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