Gill v. Stone

Opinion

TOBRINER, J.

—■ Appellant Barbara Gill appeals from an order of the Ventura County Superior Court determining the division of the estate of James W. Dodge. That court held that a bequest of “personal property” in paragraph 7 of the will of James Dodge encompassed only personal effects, and that cash, bonds, notes and trust deeds owned by testator passed into a testamentary trust for the benefit of testator’s children and his housekeeper Dolores Stone, the respondent on this appeal. We have examined the testator’s last will and earlier wills on which that last will was based; we have…