Goodman v. Zimmerman
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MERRILL, J.—
I
Factual and Procedural Background
Edward Goodman, founder of Goodman Lumber Company (GLC), died on September 2, 1990. Edward left most of his approximately $ 100-million-value estate to his two daughters, Joan Zimmerman and Gloria Clumeck. Edward left his son, Charles Goodman, one-third of an antique automobile collection, a bequest valued at approximately $2 million. Charles filed a complaint seeking the imposition of a constructive trust and revocation of trust amendments and a petition for revocation of probate alleging, inter alia, that his father lacked testamentary…
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