In re the Estate of Wittmeier
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of the City • and County of San Francisco adjudging an executrix guilty of contempt. J. V. Coffey, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Magdalena Wittmeier, executrix, filed her final account in the matter of the estate of J. G-. Wittmeier, and also petitioned for distribution. Her account was settled and distribution decreed. G-. A. Wittmeier was a legatee under the will, and had assigned his legacy, amounting to one thousand dollars, to John C. Hughes. By the decree this legacy was ordered distributed and paid to Hughes.
The executrix, failing and refusing to pay over the money, was cited to show cause. After hearing she was found to be contumacious, adjudged guilty of contempt, and was ordered committed to jail until she…
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