Estate of Adams

The four surviving brothers and a sister of George Charles Adams (hereafter called the Adams claimants), through one of them who was appointed administrator of the estate, appeal from a decree determining that certain relatives of the intestate’s predeceased spouse (hereafter referred to as the Schmitt claimants), are entitled to inherit as statutory heirs of George Adams, under section 228 of the Probate Code, their share of that portion of the estate found to have been the community property of George Adams and his predeceased wife, Isabella.

The basic question presented revolves around the…