In Re Estate of Putnam

Appellant, as executrix, bases her appeal upon the failure of the superior court to make a determination, pursuant to her petition for instructions, that property inventoried in the estate was community property.

In her petition filed June 9, 1958, appellant alleged that the decedent died on April 16, 1957, and that she was appointed executrix on November 14, 1957. She further alleged that at the time of the death the decedent and the petitioner were husband and wife and owned as community property the shares of stock and the real property listed in the inventory and appraisement on file, but…