Cook v. Estate of Todd

Kate L. Todd, a resident of California, died there, intestate, March 13,1954. She left no spouse her surviving. She was survived by certain nephews, nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces, referred to herein as blood heirs, and by claimant, Kathryn Bell Todd Cook. The latter, a resident of California, had been there adopted by Howard Watterson Todd, intestate’s son who had died there, without natural issue, in 1951. The other children of intestate had previously died during early childhood.

March 15, 1954, Guy L. Todd and Roy R. Swartz, nephews of Kate L. Todd, were appointed administrators of…