Xavier v. Amaral

There are two appeals: one, from a judgment for proponents in a will contest tried to a jury; and the *811other, from a judgment determining interests in the estate under the will.

Decedent, Louise Goulart, was born in the Azores in 1878. In the early part of the present century, she came to California to make her home with Jose P. and Louise Amaral. This couple, being childless, wished to adopt her, but could not do so under the law at that time because she was an adult. She lived with the two until the death of the aunt in 1935. In 1952, the law having been changed to allow the adoption of an…