In Re Estate of Putnam

The contest here is between the daughter of decedent’s predeceased husband and the surviving husband and other heirs of deceased. It centers around the question of whether section 229 of the Probate Code, which provides: “If the decedent leaves no issue, and the estate or any portion thereof was separate prop.erty of a previously deceased spouse, and came to the decedent from such spouse by gift, descent, devise or bequest, such property goes in equal shares to the children of the deceased spouse and to their descendants by representation ...” controls the distribution of a part of the…