Bishop v. Donovan

This is an appeal from a judgment determining heirship under a claim to succession based on the provisions of section 229 of the Probate Code, the pertinent parts of which provide: “If the decedent leaves neither spouse nor issue, and the estate or any portion thereof was separate property of a previously deceased spouse, and came to the decedent from such spouse by gift, descent, devise, or bequest, . . . such property goes in equal shares to the children of the deceased spouse and to their descendants by right of representation, ...” (Prob. Code, §229.)

A. D. Bishop and Della Bishop were…