Merchant v. Oakland Red Cross Society
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
CHIPMAN, C.
Appeal from decree, of distribution by which the residue of the estate of deceased was distributed for the benefit and advancement of the Oakland Red Cross Society in California, in preference to appellant, Baron D. Merchant, son and sole heir at law of deceased, as he claims it should have gone.
The eighth item in the will of deceased is made part of the decree, and may be looked to as showing the intention of the testatrix, without violating the rule in Goad v. Montgomery, 119 Cal. 652. 1 ‘ ‘ Eighth: All the rest, residue, and remainder of my property of every kind and nature I…
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