Barham v. Khoury

The question for decision is whether the court below was required to find the facts as given in the uncontradicted testimony of appellant, Khoury, or did it act in a lawful exercise of the judicial function in inferring from the circumstances of the alleged gift and the history of that appellant’s relationship to the donor that there was no gift in view of death.

Prior to her decease, July 1, 1945, and at all times subsequent to June, 1940, decedent Maggie George resided in her comfortable home in the city of Beverly Hills. Her husband having accumulated a competency departed this life prior…