Campbell v. Campbell

This is a proceeding under section 1664 of the Code of Civil Procedure to obtain a decree declaring the succession to the estate of Allen G. Campbell, deceased. The court below held that certain provisions of the will of the deceased, purporting to dispose of a large part of the estate, operated to suspend the absolute power of alienation-of the property for a period longer than the lives of persons in being at his death, that they were therefore contrary to sections 715 and 716 of the Civil Code and void, and that, in consequence, he died intestate as to his property and that it. descended…