Lobb v. Brown

This action was instituted for the purpose of having it declared that the defendants hold in trust for the plaintiff certain real and personal property received by them under decrees of partial distribution in the estate of Mary Ellen Moore, deceased.

Mary Ellen Moore at the time of her death was about eighty-two years of age. Her home had been in Alameda, in the county of Alameda, where she had resided many years immediately preceding her death. The defendants are brothers and were nephews of the deceased. They had been reared by her and had spent most of their lives with her. The decedent…