Legal Opinion
Estate of Tibbetts
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 1, 1941No. Civ. 11880PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpence, J.
This is an appeal by H. C. Lawton from those portions of a decree of distribution which distributed to Marion L. Swift a part of the estate of said deceased.
Francena Ella Tibbetts, deceased, a resident of California, died in this state leaving property herein. She had made a will in this state in 1933 devising and bequeathing one-half of said property to her sister Annie M. Lawton, who was a resident of Massachusetts. Said Annie M. Lawton predeceased the testatrix leaving surviving her H. C. Lawton, her son, and Marion L. Swift, her adopted daughter who had been duly adopted under the laws of…
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