Estate of Lynch
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a decree of the Superior Court of Solano County distributing the estate of a deceased person. A. J. Buckles, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
—The estate of P. C*. Lynch, an intestate, was distributed,—to the widow, Mary Lynch, appellant here, fifteen twentieths as survivor of the community, and statutory heir at law, and the remaining five twentieths to certain collateral distributees,—to wit, two brothers and one sister, all of the half blood, and to two sets of children, being the children of a deceased brother of the full blood, and the children of a deceased sister of the full blood. The question is, Are these collaterals entitled to take any part of the estate, as against the widow, who claims it all?
Appellant rests…
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