Tracy v. Muir
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. William T. Baggett, and George W. Monteith, for Appellant. Campbell, Metson & Campbell, and Thomas H. Breeze, for Respondents.
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendants, given upon sustaining a demurrer to plaintiff’s amended complaint. The action was one in equity to obtain a decree adjudging defendants, Elizabeth Muir and Isabella Curtis, to hold certain property distributed to them by decrees of partial distribution in the matter of the estate of one Jacob Z. Davis, deceased, as trustees for plaintiff, a daughter of a deceased brother of said Davis and one of his heirs at law, and the other heirs at law. The distribution to defendants was in accord with the terms of a document purporting…
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