Hillman v. Stults

NUTTER, J. pro tem. *

This case involves consolidated appeals from certain orders involving a conservatorship and a receivership and a judgment holding that extensive ranch holdings, real and personal property of respondent Hillman in San Luis Obispo County were held in trust for him by his sister, Genie Hillman Stults. The dispute resulted from an effort by Hillman who had been convicted of murdering his wife 1 to retain and preserve his property holdings during his imprisonment by conveying and transferring his property to his sister as trustee. The sister is now deceased. Her estate has…