Appenfelder v. Security Trust & Savings Bank

THOMPSON (IRA F.), J.

This is an appeal from an order admitting to probate the last will and testament, together with the codicil thereto, of Charles Rudolph Appenfelder, deceased. The decedent executed his will on August 24, 1924, and on March 2, 1926, made the codicil. By these instruments he bequeathed $2,000 to his former wife (divorced at the time the will was published) and devised to her a life estate in certain real property situate in Glendale, California. Of the remainder over, y8 was given to the appellant, Katherine Louise Appenf elder, described in the will as “my niece” but who…