Estate of Hite
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a decree of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco for the partial distribution of the estate of a deceased person. J. V. Coffey, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Louis Titus, H. M. Wright, and W. E. Creed, for Appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
John R. Hite died April 18, 1906, leaving a large estate, and papers purporting to be a will with two codicils thereto. The will bore date July 29, 1902. By it, he gave to his sister, Lucretia Y. Grove, ten thousand dollars, to his half-brother Gabriel Hite ten thousand dollars, to Alex. Matthews and Etta Gross, children of an old friend, five thous- and dollars each, to a Mrs. Stearn, five thousand dollars, to two named charities five thousand dollars each, to any person legally determined to be his widow five dollars, and all the rest and residue of his property in one-third shares to his…
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