Pearson v. Pearson
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Tenth Judicial District, Colusa County. Pearson, the testator, died on the 10th day of January, 1865, having made his will a week before his death. The decree of distribution was made on the 4th day of June, 1866. The plaintiff was born on the 10th day of October, 1850, and was a minor when the probate proceedings were had. This action was commenced before June, 1871, and was tried in September, 1871. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
In the year 1865 one Richard Pearson died in the County of Colusa, seized of certain real estate situate in that county, and leaving a last will and testament, which was duly admitted to probate, whereby he devised to the defendant Laura Pearson, who is styled in the will the wife of the testator, and to Theodore, Henry, Mary, William, Richard, and Jefferson Pearson, who are described in the will as children of the testator, and to Susan Price, equal portions of his real estate. The plaintiff is a daughter of Pearson by a former wife, from whom he was divorced; and…
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