Stewart v. Smith
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sutter County. K. S. Mahon, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
The action is in equity to compel specific performance of a contract to make a certain testamentary dis position of property. Two of the plaintiffs are children and the other two are daughters of a deceased child of James S. Stewart and Annie Stewart, decedents. All the other heirs, legatees and devisees of said Annie Stewart, deceased, are made defendants.
It appears from the complaint that said James S. Stewart, at the time of his death in 1870, left property, real and personal, of the value of $17,000. All claims against the estate did not exceed the sum of $1,000. In the same year Annie…
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