Legal Opinion
Arata v. Bank of America
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 10, 1963No. Civ. 10694PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DYKE, J. *
This is an appeal from a judgment, based on a directed verdict, in an action brought by two minors to enforce against the estate of Silve G. Arata two contracts for their support and maintenance.
The plaintiffs are the illegitimate children of decedent, and the contracts sued upon were alleged to have been made with the mother of the infants for their benefit.
The allegations of the complaint with respect to the contracts are as follows: While the mother of the minors, Helene Keith, was pregnant with the older of the two plaintiffs, having conceived the child as a result of acts…
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