Legal Opinion
Appell v. Carr
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 7, 1969No. Civ. No. 33351PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAiso, J.
Five surviving named beneficiaries of a testamentary trust appeal from an order made in response to a petition for instructions (Prob. Code, § 1120) and which directed the trustee to pay the one-sixth portion of the trust income which would have been payable to a predeceased sixth-named beneficiary, if he were alive, to his surviving father, Alexander Carr. The petitioning trustee, Irving Shafer, did not appeal.
We have concluded that the order was erroneous and that it should be reversed.
The Background
On April 22, 1940, Jacob Shafer executed a will prepared by his attorney, Edward K. Brody.…
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