Dabney v. Philleo

In these applications for a writ of supersedeas petitioners, Clifford R. Dabney and Alice M. Dabney, husband and wife, seek to stay further proceedings in the Estate of Louise E. Dabney, Deceased, under orders of ratable distribution entered on August 22 and September 26, 1950, and February 6, 1951, pending determination of petitioners’ appeals from such orders.

Petitioners allege, in their first petition for the writ, 1 that on February 1, 1950, they commenced an action (numbered 569707) in the superior court in Los Angeles in which they seek declaratory relief, to establish constructive and…