Buttram v. Finley
California Court of Appeal
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
The plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment which was rendered against them in a suit to quiet title to real property. The will of Henry Clay Mizer, deceased, devised to his wife Sarah a life estate in the undivided one-half of his real and personal property. The remainder in that property, except the remainder in a sixty- acre tract which was given to another party, at the death of the widow was devised to Nancy Buttram, a sister of the testator, and in the event of her death before that of the widow, the property was to pass to the heirs of Nancy Buttram. The land was subjected…
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